Tag: Social Media
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Is advertising revenue competition the real push to ban TikTok?
Has anyone looked into who is lobbying legislators to ban TikTok? As far as I can tell TikTok is doing the same thing with data that all the other social media companies are doing. If we ban TikTok we should ban them all. Google and Meta each faced headwinds in 2022, as people spent less…
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Am I the only one who sees this comparison in Beyoncé’s new album art?
The ridiculousness of Beyoncé’s pose on the horse just reminds me of the Old Spice Guy. This was a great run of commercials. The first I saw that used YouTube and social media to its full advantage.
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Illinois State Police were notified Crimo was a danger and made threats to “kill everyone” in 2019
Seems law enforcement keeps failing the public. If the Illinois State Police was notified, on two separate occasions, of Crimo’s threat to commit suicide and his threat to “kill everyone”, why didn’t they remove his FOID card? Without it he would not have been able to buy the guns or ammo within the state.
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Illinois’ restrictive gun laws did nothing to prevent the Highland Park July 4th massacre
You must register with the state if you wish to handle firearms in the State of Illinois. You must obtain a Firearm Owners Identification card (FOID). There is a 72 hour waiting period when purchasing guns. There is a red flag law in place which is supposed to prevent unstable people from buying guns. For…
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Brookings Institution continues its push to censor your podcast
The Brookings Institution is not calling it censorship. They’re calling it moderation. But anyone paying attention over the past 6 years knows moderation is newspeak for censorship. The litany of stories from the Charlottesville “very fine people” bullshit, the Trump Russian Collusion hoax, the SARS-CoV-2 not created/created in a lab theory, effective/ineffective COVID-19 mRNA vaccines,…
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Back to RSS
We need to get away from the social media platforms and get back to RSS. The web and the Internet are the platforms. RSS is the protocol for the decentralization everyone craves.