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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • how dumb can you be? You think people that are protesting over social media bans are actually cognizant of the actual effects of social media? or what the law actually entailed? Look at the protests in the US over TikTok. People just want social media, they don’t care the effects.

    The truth of the matter is (before all the killings) is that all the ‘social media companies’ had to do was fill out a fucking form and they didn’t do it. Then people pissed about missing their feeds went out and blamed it on the government, when it was completely the social media companies’ faults. Sure, it sounds like the government was doing a lot of other shit, but acting like the government didn’t give the companies time to register is just an absolute lie, there were several companies that managed just fine and they didn’t get blocked. If the goal was blocking social media completely then they wouldn’t have bothered with the registration, they just would have blocked.

    People need to stop giving social media companies the benefit of the doubt. Now the situation is so out of control that people get to blame the government blocking social media as a reason to not do any sort of regulation against these tech companies in other countries. Now when a law in X country pops up saying “we need to regulate FB, TikTok, etc” you’re going to get people referencing Nepal as a reason not to, even if FB/etc are literally causing genocides.

    To be clear: this is NOT a commentary on whatever other bs the government is doing or the protesters are protesting. This is ONLY a comment on the OP i replied to stating

    which is why social media platforms were cut off, so videos about the corruption and investigations and means to plan protests were cut off. The ‘they didn’t register in time’ excuse is for the government to save face internationally.

    which is just a bald faced lie since they didn’t cut off any social media that literally filled out a form.













  • The proposal faced pushback from logging concession holders and regional business groups in Loreto, Peru’s largest region, located in the country’s far northeast where the reserve would be located. Some lawmakers also objected, arguing that creating the reserve would block economic development and restrict access to valuable natural resources. Supporters of these industries questioned whether there was sufficient evidence of uncontacted peoples in the area, saying the territory had been tied up for nearly two decades without final approval.

    Literally only rejected because of “economic” reasons. Politicians showing their faces.




  • Why does no journalist ever ask why government officials want Israel to be our ally. Just because they were for x number of years has no bearing on whether or not they should have been or should still be our ally. Russia was our ally, guess what, they’re not anymore. We don’t have to ally ourselves with murderous countries.

    The whole interview centers on Israel must be our ally so we must do stuff for them. They shouldn’t fucking be our ally!!! They’ve been committing atrocities for generations at this point!