> Board will include one U.S. government–appointed director.

In other words, one's data will now be under the scrutiny of amoral radicals who have decided to target people for political speech.

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delfinom 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

We are slowly becoming Communist China.

Won't be long until all companies will be required to have a party office.

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athorax 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

This is such a funny take. In China corporations operate at the behest of the government. In the US the government operates at the behest of corporations.

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oblio 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

That's changing, though. They <are> working together, but the balance is tilting towards the US government and worse, towards individuals controlling it.

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pcthrowaway 3 days ago | parent [-]

The U.S. is moving to state capitalism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism) which is common in fascist regimes (think Nazi Germany or fascist Italy)

	▲	the_gipsy 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Which should also be deemed very inefficient, if I understand correctly. Germany's growth was unsustainable. A realistic example would be Spain, where 36 years of real-world fascism left the country well behind comparable countries.

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immibis 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

All that means is an interchange of definitions: Chinese calls "corporations" what US calls "government" and vice versa. But not fundamental different reality.

On planet Floorp, carpets (organic bipedal tetrapods) use people (machines that suck air) to clean vacuums (woolen floor lining). How quaint - no, not really, that's exactly the same as on Earth but with different words.

There are good arguments to be made that the USA's government is corporations, and the entity we call "the US government" doesn't actually meet the definition of being the government of the US.

	▲	athorax 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Its a nice thought, but this is not at all reflective of reality

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motbus3 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's not true. You won't have state care or education

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jimmydoe 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

maybe, but i think what I see here is trump is not interested to beat china, just see what he did with s korea and india.

the only thing may indicate that trump is competing with china is how hard he's trying to please putin, but apparently he needs to work harder to get into the organ harvesting club.

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VectorLock 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

US bought a big stake in Intel; the US is quickly attempting to replicate China's system of State Capitalism. If you can't beat em, join em, I guess.

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jameslk 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

[flagged]

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amanaplanacanal 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Weren't they just reporting to Twitter when they saw posts breaker twitters existing policies?

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jameslk 3 days ago | parent [-]

Is it not problematic that the government is bringing up specific things they’d like censored?

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immibis 3 days ago | parent [-]

As long as it stays to the level of "Hey, doesn't this violate your rules?" I think the government has the same right to press the report button, or even to write an email equivalent to pressing report a bunch of times, as anyone else does.

I'm not aware that a Democrat government arrested anyone for not complying with these emails.

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jameslk 3 days ago | parent [-]

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 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yeah it certainly looked bad. And it gave cover for the new administration to just pretend the first amendment doesn't exist.
	▲	immibis 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		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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platevoltage 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Key word here is "asking".

	▲	jameslk 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yes the government asking for content to be censored is censorship. They don’t always ask either, e.g. Julian Assange/Wikileaks