As Douglas Adams put it:

The President in particular is very much a figurehead — he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it. On those criteria Zaphod Beeblebrox is one of the most successful Presidents the Galaxy has ever had — he has already spent two of his ten presidential years in prison for fraud.

He’s not the real problem. He never was. He is literally the distraction.

Well, honestly, this might be one of the use cases where these “AI” tools could be useful. Pattern recognition is something they are actually great at accomplishing. That said, I am still skeptical and concerned that the algorithms are being designed and deployed mindfully.

Which doesn’t contradict the headline in any way.

The only explanation that makes sense to me is the payment processors are ruin by shit heads who are actively looking for an excuse to censor shit.

That’s your best? Go away

Show me an example of these articles.

You sound willfully unaware, and as a result it’s hard to resist an inflammatory response.

Please research this with an open mind. You may fond yourself surprised at how strongly it will affect your worldview.

So, username checks out…

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Oh shut up already. How many threads are you gonna spam the same thought terminating cliché? Do you seriously feel intelligent afterwards, cause that’s just scary.

I think it’s incredibly arrogant and pretty blatantly rude to come into a completely unrelated thread and start spouting what essentially accounts to nothing more than propaganda.

Whether you’re right or wrong, you’re just an asshole.

Wow. Just had to hijack the thread, you’re that desperate to shit all over Ukraine? Dude, this is just pathetic.

I heard they recently changed their stance, but as far as I know you’re right on the money.

Today, you get to be one of the lucky 10,000.

Once had a friend comment, “have you ever felt like you should apologize to the toilet for what you just did?”

The look on the host’s face was priceless.

You can shove your problem where the sun don’t shine, bigot.

These type of replies are so tiresome. Normalizing this crap is exactly the goal of the media, why are you helping them?

That’s the most pathetic description of victim blaming I’ve heard yet.

The people are the problem because the real problem is something else? What a stupid statement.

I hope you come to terms with the fact that you don’t matter.

No, the algorithms are always there - otherwise, there is no “feed”. It’s just that the algorithms here have no hidden weights to drive engagement towards specific topics/posts. Not that it can’t still be manipulated, but that’s often detectable behind the scenes, too.