cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5703612
Remember when Brazil banned Twitter because Elon Musk broke the law. And the liberals said that this was an attack on freedom of expression and that the judges of the Brazilian Supreme Court were not elected (ignoring the fact that the same thing happens in the US).
But also AMLO making judges electable is doin an authoritarianism lol truly fish brained people
I think it was Michael Parenti that said something like: "If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed, but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike, this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system. if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them." These people will never be happy with anything that isn't full submission to the US.
Even if they completely capitulate to US control the media would still point at those exact things as criticism that they are doing it wrong or that there's just "too much corruption" in their "society*."
*usually a dogwhistle for racism
Japan being treated the way it was in the 80s is proof of that
And the liberals said that this was an attack on freedom of expression
I didn't really see that. Most Libs I saw were pretty pro the ban.
Awesome. I love logging onto Facebook or Instagram and seeing hateful content directed at minorities and thinly veiled neonazisim, but we certainly can't let those pesky Ruskis keep on spreading misinformation!
damn, they got African Stream?! wishing a slow and painful death to amerikkka
well it is twitter and meta so shouldn't be surprised abt the platforms they got banned from. plus youtube's been trigger happy w/ its content policy for a long time now
e: just meta, not twitter
They are still on Twitter
You can also follow them on Telegram
Another American platform.
Telegram
A platform recently compromised by the French government.
The Cold War 2.0 information crackdown is already here. At first it will be the low-hanging fruit: channels on corporate platforms. After that will be more subtle McCarthy-type pressure, then overt. If anyone is doing anything important on a corporate platform, it's time to make alternative-communication plans now.
There is PeerTube, but I am not sure if they incorporate it. And there is no alternative for Telegram that is FLOSS.
matrix?
CIA
I've never used Telegram, but from what I can see public Matrix groups could most likely take it's place? Maybe there's some features I'm unaware of but 
I don't use it personally, but from my understanding Telegram has been moving in the "everything app" direction. While it does group chats and DMs (like Matrix), it is also used as a publishing platform (like Twitter or Substack), among other things. This model of doing a million different things under one brand name is something I don't expect any free software platform to take up any time soon. They typically prefer to choose one problem, solve it, and keep the project focused within that scope, whereas commercial platforms just acquire firms and assimilate their functionality under their branding (or, less successfully, decide randomly one day that the micro-blogging platform is now a video streaming platform suitable for presidential campaign launch announcements).
The tendency for tire manufacturers to become the de facto review board for luxury restaurants is a uniquely capitalist phenomenon.
Ah, that makes sense then. I think It'd be cool to see an open-source take on the "everything app", my (limited) experience with WeChat is quite positive. It's incredibly convenient to just have one login that can grant you access to everything you'd ever need and have it be widely enough used for it to be actually useful.
oops idk how i managed to read "twitter" in the post
I like African Stream a lot they literally just post marxist stuff, fuck amerikkka.
I assume they'll be banned on reddit soon then, they've been personally posting to /r/greenandpleasant and a few other leftist places. Super successful on tiktok as well.
Goddammit, anyone know where I can find red. videos now? I gotta go make backups of some useful video from other channels I think might get hit next. Good timing on tankie tube.
they've still got a channel on telegram, though who knows how long telegram will last
African Stream was good stuff. Pretty innicent stuff too. What "guideline" did they break?
I think they the accusation is that they took funding from RT
Oh noes! The horrors if true! 
What a joke.
told you guys. everything is controlled by the CIA or state department
I REALLY want to jump ship to Russian or Chinese controlled sites. It would be good propaganda to see a large amount of users use "bad country" websites in order to avoid CIA botting and censorship. Reddit is completely unusable now due to CIA/Israeli bots. I do NOT want to see pro-genocidal content.
If you stay on Reddit on like 10 subreddits, you avoid that.
before my last reddit ip ban I was only on hobby subs and thedeprogram, yet I saw CIA and Israeli propaganda in the hobby subs. i was banned from a hobby sub for debunking a claim and later on I accidentally commented within the sub which got me an IP ban (which is easily circumventible btw).
it's been a strategy for at a few years (I'd say approx 2020) to indoctrinate people who are not into politics or current affairs
red. is an absolutely terrible name for any organization anyways. Completely unsearchable, they practically censored themselves.
African Stream has an RSS feed and telegram account. https://africanstream.media/feed/
You should be able to just put africanstream.media into your RSS reader and it will locate the /feed endpoint from the html head element.
Thanks. 🥰 Gotta collect more of those watchlists.
sus
It’s my first time hearing about either
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