Already started moving my shit off Google. Been with them since 2004 and have nearly my entire post-high school life in there. I won't ever watch their ads, I'll stop going to YouTube the day my ad-blocker stops working.

'BECUZ "OWN THE LIBZ," YA LIBRAL CUCK! FUCK YA, RON! BEAT THOSE WOKE ASSES!!'

• Florida Republican voters, probably

/s

That and they would actually have to campaign. Right now, once they're the nominee, they get the full backing of the party and only campaign in "battleground states," for the most part. If they were up against a dozen parties, they might have to work for a change.

The media keeps giving a megaphone to the extreme who yell the loudest. There are fewer of those idiots than even the "wanna-be tRumpians" realize. They went all in on this train. Now it's off the rails and they're only just now realizing there aren't any conductors to stop it.

That was the event planned using TikTok, which prompted them to propose banning the app (the first time).

Honestly, those still on Reddit are either lurkers or never gave a shit about the "protests" to begin with. The real measure will be the IPO. With that said, one tech group stroking off another means very little, anymore. Gizmodo can write their fluff piece.

The capitalists are concerned about the plebs using social media to organize and call out lies, doing everything they can to break up or muddy the waters of social media platforms ahead of the 2024 US presidential elections. The goal is to disrupt the platforms and drive away dissenting users who would use these platforms to organize against them and debunk misinformation/lies.

Musk buys Twitter (for far more than it was worth, lol) and drives it into the ground. Zuckerberg starts Threads to give people another "slowly boiling pot" to catch some of those looking for Twitter-alternatives. Spez and company enact changes to the platform, to artificially inflate their ad revenue ahead of their final valuation, which can't happen if users are allowed to skirt their ads with better clients. I didn't talk about Facebook, but it hasn't been relevant since COVID showed us how bat-shit crazy our families and neighbors are. Facebook is basically Nextdoor, but world-wide. We can't forget about the TikTok users. The parent company can't be touched or bought so they're just trying to outright ban the platform here.

The ultra-wealthy are showing us how scared they are of the up-and-coming new demographic of voters, who grew up on social media, know how to use it better than them, in ways they couldn't predict, and don't give a fuck about TV news, printed media, or corporatized websites. The last two elections have slowly been reversing the progress these regressionists have made using the gullibility and entitlement of the Boomer generation, the ignorance of the Gen-X generation, and the brittle corpses of the millennials to push their agenda.

The Arab Spring showed these wealthy fuckers how dangerous the people can be when they are allowed to use social media to organize and they don't want it to happen again at a time when we're finally starting to wise up to the "two-sides-of-the-same-coin" world we live in, and a new voting season has so much on the line for them.

Fuck the wealthy, money's made up, and may ass cancer rid us all of their kind!

He really needs a, "choke this mother fucker out" order.

Not true, they did something to stop the leopard face-eating, they stopped giving the leopard money! Take that leopard!

Sadly, for some they will believe it and feel defeated and return to reddit thinking it's true, and watch as reddit becomes the Facebook/Myspace of this era.

How nice it will be if the IPO is an absolute disaster!

I appreciate your work. Honestly, any site that makes me 'sign up' to read the full thing just becomes another ignored page. Fuck this gatekeeping mentality. I'll never disable ad-blockers and will never sign up for free shit just to use it. Because at that point, it's not free, the price is your info.

This really is the most dystopian of timelines.

If you're the richest man on earth, and your workers (and other pesty workers) are using Twitter to organize, just buy the platform and run it into the ground!

Well, TikTok has China, who would love nothing more than to destabilize the US further to increase their global power. Had it not been for COVID, they only needed to wait since tRump was doing his best to help them out. I suspect this is why it's only TikTok they want to ban anymore; it's the only social media platform they can't directly control.

This has been happening to reddit over the last decade and was only accelerated when reddit was used to facilitate a short squeeze on the market and caused a bunch of "market makers" to lose a lot of money. They couldn't control reddit back then, but they sure can once it's public and they fulfill their fiduciary promises to reddit.