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Why should there be fallout from supporting the current admin? Tech companies colluded with the government during the biden administration to censor American citizens.

I never saw any outrage. Only memory holing and denial



> Why should there be fallout from supporting the current admin?

Well, why or why not doesn't matter; there _was_ backlash. And to my recollection, he made some rather bizarre defensive posts on Reddit that were later deleted and replaced with a corpo response.


> I never saw any outrage

You probably aren't looking hard enough. There was plenty of outrage, and congressmen excoriated tech companies for "suppressing right-wing voice"


Not in Liberal/Left leaning communities. They called for more censorship.


Yours is an entirely different argument to what gp was claiming, and undermines the crux of gps position.




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