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@icedquinn also foreign companies like BASF paying them off, etc.

@icedquinn That's why this post is so good, it basically says that internet clampdowns did not change public opinion but rather radicalized people harder because "the jews did this" wasn't a funny joke anymore after seeing the people you like be targeted by the NGOs.

It also failed at a lot of goals, from keeping Trump out to the rise of the populist right in Europe, to trying to keep people up to date with the latest COVID script because turns out all it did was make people lose trust. Instead, those ended up happening because of how people felt about real world issues.

@icedquinn the other thing with amazon is the wal-mart effect x10000

Your local Home Depot's fuses or something are just missing or have empty bags because someone ripped it open and shot it out the door, Digikey shipping is a gamble on what the shipping speed actually is....Amazon has some name you've never heard of and fuses that will not actually pop, with next day shipping, and then everything else you want for less than the price the store charges if they have it.

Also the snapper mower story happens quite a bit in the industries and I'm sure it does with Amazon too:
https://www.fastcompany.com/54763/man-who-said-no-wal-mart

@sun oh it talks about that too

Interesting effortpost dropped about institutional level internet censorship calling it the "closure of the internet". It's very tl;dr but it goes into detail what many of the top social media sites did from 2015-22, and breaks it down into two phases, the post Trump/Brexit era of 15-19, and the COVID lockdown era of 2020-22.

Also it tellingly mentions that it never ended, Twitter just dialed back and everyone else has the infrastructure in place.

Of course there are also people who will deny with a smile that this actually happened.

https://arctotherium.substack.com/p/the-closure-of-the-internet

@silverpill @deutrino @jody_racer @mkljczk it's also easy to host