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		jameslk 80 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with... Are you suggesting it's okay for the government to push for censoring specific content only when it also happens to break the rules of a site? How is the flag button equivalent to the White House writing emails to Twitter and Meta? It seems the latter would have a lot more priority than my personal measly attempts at pressing the flag button on something I didn't like

amanaplanacanal 80 days ago | [–]

Yeah it certainly looked bad. And it gave cover for the new administration to just pretend the first amendment doesn't exist.

immibis 79 days ago | [–]

I'm just as entitled as Joe Biden to write an email to Elon saying he should ban the following rule-breaking posts.

I've written emails to HN moderators like that before.

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