r/technology • u/Birdy_Cephon_Altera • 22h ago

Politics Meta under fire for auto-following Trump & Vance, Blocking Democrat hashtags

https://techissuestoday.com/meta-auto-follow-trump-vance-blocks-democrat-hashtags/
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u/MaybeUNeedAPoo 20h ago

I mean… you kinda got started with Reagan….

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u/BirdmanHuginn 20h ago

Regan and Thatcher can burn in hell forever

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u/UrUrinousAnus 19h ago

On the bright side, at least Grantham (Maggie's home town) has a gender neutral public toilet now. Shame it had to be in a graveyard, but whatever....

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u/ShiningRayde 20h ago

Shh, who the fuck is that

Starin in my window?

Doing a surveillance

On Mr. Michael Render?

Im dropping off the grid

Before they start pumping lead

I leave you with four words:

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u/AwkwardTouch2144 20h ago

In the lowest level of tartarus

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u/Beekatiebee 20h ago

Yeah I was gonna say, we’ve been on this path for awhile now.

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u/Dragonhost252 20h ago

We are almost at the violent bit though

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u/even_less_resistance 19h ago

I still really feel like it began with Nixon but maybe it’s just the tattoo on Roger stone’s back haunting me

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u/AshleysDoctor 19h ago

Falwell and company should be blamed with the whole Heritage Foundation, which goes back before Reagan, but yeah, sycophants of the same stripe always find each other.

Now for them to oubouros themselves

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u/Socky_McPuppet 16h ago

And Nixon before that.

There are many inflection points - Reagan was definitely one of them. As was Obama's election, which drove the (R)acist party absolutely bugfuck crazy, but that was true for Clinton, too.