“Signal is being blocked in Venezuela and Russia. The app is a popular choice for encrypted messaging and people trying to avoid government censorship, and the blocks appear to be part of a crackdown on internal dissent in both countries…”

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      4 months ago

      It is a link that the reasons of the riots were far more deep that a single tweet. The world is a little bit more complicated that button-> action.

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        4 months ago

        But no one is saying that a single tweet started all this.

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          No one? The narrative is : fake news and tweets started all this. We need to regulate the internet. As the french revolution was started by the statements of Marie-Antoinette.

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            4 months ago

            You are right that there are underlying causes that needs to be addressed. That’s why it spread so much and so fast. But that doesn’t make racially motivated fake news OK.