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If people truly understood the extent to which mentalnarrative dominates their experience of life, propaganda,advertising and all other forms of psychologicalmanipulation would be regarded by our society similarly tophysical assault or property theft.

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It is verytelling that Twitter only started censoring Trump forviolating terms of service when he promoted violence againstAmericans. He's been tweeting insanely hawkish threatsagainst people in other nations for years, but they don'tcount as real people.

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FYI if you're more upsetby Twitter censoring one of the most powerful people in theworld for inciting violence than by Twitter routinelycensoring anti-imperialist accounts, it's because you're amindless partisan hack.

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Twitter going to warwith Trump benefits ordinary people. If we're lucky Twitterwinds up being forced to scale back its censorshipprotocols. If we're really lucky Trump stops advocatingmurdering people for looting.

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It's sofascinating how liberals think they can just end conspiracytheories by having them censored by a blanket collaborationof shady Silicon Valley tech oligarchs. Says a lot about howlittle they understand - or want to understand - about otherperspectives.

I mean how do they imagine that's goingto work exactly? "Oh okay I used to think that 5G was forcontrolling nanobots injected into us under the pretense ofa mandatory coronavirus vaccine, but now all the onlineposts about that have been removed by an opaque conspiracyof tech billionaires so I guess I'll stop believingthat."

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The establishment doesn't fear Trump's"populist" base anymore than they fear Trump. They've beeneasily propagandized into backing longstanding establishmentagendas against Iran, China, Venezuela, Russia, Assange,etc. They're as worthless and neutered as Obama's basewas.

Support Assange? Okay well we need to extraditehim for his safety. Oppose Russia hysteria? Just ignore allTrump's cold war escalations then. Oppose war? Those areObama's wars, not Trump's. A slight narrative adjustment wasall it took to herd them in.

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If you believefighting the deep state has something to do with beating theDemocrats and supporting Donald Trump, then you are notactually interested in fighting the deep state. What you areactually doing is called "being aRepublican".

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Life pro tip: If you findyourself cheering for the same "people's uprising" in aforeign nation that the US State Department is also loudlycheering for, it's because you've been propagandized. Pleaserevise your media consumption habits and critical thinkingskills accordingly.

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I don't know who needs tohear this, but you will never, ever hate China hard enoughto make manufacturing jobs return toAmerica.

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People think they're making aprofound and important distinction when they say "No I hatethe Chinese government, not the Chinesepeople." As though all the worst warmongers haven'tbabbled about supporting "the people" ofIraq/Libya/Syria/etc prior to every act ofimperialism.

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Complete list of arguments I'vereceived against my opposition to cold war escalations withChina:

- You love the CCP

- You think they'venever done anything wrong

- Commie

- How manyyuan were you paid to say this?

- If you love China somuch you should move there

End oflist.

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If people moving too far to the leftfeatures anywhere on your list of major imminent threats toour society, you are an asshole.

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Trump is nota Nazi Putin puppet, nor is he a populist savior. He's amiserable rich man from a miserable rich family who did whatwas necessary to become the president of a corruptbloodthirsty empire, and then had a bunch of gratuitousnarratives heaped on that from bothsides.

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I've never encountered anyone onlinewith whom I consistently agree, and if you're an independentthinker you won't either. Spend less energy concerningyourself with which individuals are good or bad and more onwhat information and ideas are true andhelpful.

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TikTok has released an apology and formal statement after a glitch in the platform appeared to censor content related to the US protests over George Floyds killing at the hands of police.

Earlier this week, TikTok users began reporting that the search results for the hashtags #BlackLivesMatter and #GeorgeFloyd showed zero views. Many accused the platform, which is owned by Chinese company Bytedance, of deliberately stifling the conversation around the Black Lives Matter movement.

TikTok allegedly censoring Black Lives Matter and George Floyd related content. Black Lives Matter hashtag and every single George Floyd related hashtag gets absolutely no views and are allegedly not being suggested to users. Is this a glitch, or is TikTok doing this on purpose? pic.twitter.com/LmQPd3KSup

Def Noodles (@defnoodles) May 29, 2020

The official statement, titled A message to our Black community, comes from Vanessa Pappas and Kudzi Chikumbu, TikTok US General Manager and Director of Creator Community respectively. In it, they say that the incident was a display issue only that widely affected hashtags at large.

Nevertheless, we understand that many assumed this bug to be an intentional act to suppress the experiences and invalidate the emotions felt by the Black community. And we know we have work to do to regain and repair that trust.

They also pledged to donate a total of 4 million USD to coronavirus relief efforts and to funds related to other causes that disproportionately affect the black community. Users later found that the glitch had been fixed, and that other popular hashtags had been similarly affected.

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TikTok has previously come under fire in the US for censoring posts related to users with disabilities, as well as severalChina-specific issues. Some US lawmakers have even suggested that the app poses a threat tonational security due to its alleged ties to the CCP. Part of TikToks response has been to open a content moderation center in its Los Angeles office in March of this year in the hopes that this will be seen to offer more transparency in the US.

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In this episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain speaks with the founder and editor-in-chief of DOAM (Documenting Oppression against Muslims), Zahid Akhtar.

Zahid explains how he manages DOAM across various social media platforms and in five different languages, and the challenges he has faced with bans, closures and censorship.

The content creator states how nationalism and weak leadership has resulted in the current state of the Ummah.

Both Dilly and Zahid briefly go over the different groups of Muslims who are being persecuted around the world: the Rohingya (Myanmar), Uyghurs (China), Palestinians, Syrians, Kashmiris, India among others.

Topics of discussion also include whether Uyghur Muslims should seek help from the U.S. against China, the role of Muslims in the west in standing up for the oppressed, and collaborating with other media outlets who we may differ with on some areas for the sake of unity.

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Last week, Twitter attached a link to one of President Donald Trump's tweets, asserting that the president's claims about voter fraud and mail-in voting weren't true. The social media platform decision incensed Trump and many Republicans, including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Attorney General Ken Paxton. The president even issued an executive order attempting to strip social media companies of liability protections they've enjoyed since the '90s.

There a plenty of times over the past couple of years where Texans on Twitter could've used a little help from the fact checkers. If Jack Dorsey and company want to police their platform, here are a couple of places we wish they'd have started.

1. Let's start with an easy one:

In September 2019, North Texas state Rep. Jonathan Stickland called vaccines witchcraft during a Twitter fight with Dr. Peter Hotez, one of Texas's leading vaccinologists.

The fact check could've been one sentence: "Vaccines are not witchcraft."

2. Gov. Greg Abbott pumps up Kid Rock's Senate campaign: In 2017, Kid Rock acted like he was running for Senate in Michigan. He wasn't, really, but that didn't stop Abbott from celebrating his campaign.

The problem with poll Abbott tweeted out, as FiveThirtyEight would later explain,is that the organization that conducted it, Delphi Analytica, wasn't a polling firm. It wasn't even clear, the politics analysis website found, whether or not the firm even conducted the poll the way they said they did. Delphi Analytica's goal was to get attention. It worked, thanks in large part to the governor.

3. Abbott, part two: In August 2018, in the midst of a right-wing frenzy over the loosely collected leftists who compose Antifa, Abbott tweeted a quote he believed came from Winston Churchill.

The fascists of the future, an image macro featuring Churchill said, will call themselves antifascists.

The thing is, Churchill never uttered the sentence quoted in the meme. The meme itself came from @9gag, a Hong Kong-based content farm. Abbott deleted the tweet, but not before he made The Washington Post.4. Katrina Pierson mixes up Gaza and Belarus: Failed Dallas congressional candidate and Trump acolyte Katrina Pierson has never worried to much about consistency or the truth. A little more than a year ago, in an apparent attempt to attack Minnesota U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar over violence between Palestinians in Gaza and Israel, Pierson tweeted out images of rocket's being fired.

The rockets in question, The Washington Post found, were likely fired in Belarus. Pierson still hasn't deleted the tweet.

5. Abbott dooms the Astros: In 2014, the Astros were up 6-2 over the Royals in Game 4 of the American League Division Series. They led the series 2-1 and looked poised to make their first American League Championship Series. Abbott crowned them early. The Royals came back and then won Game 5 in Kansas City.

Another easy fact check: "No, they haven't."

6. Twitter tries to shoot Amari Cooper: On Feb. 19, a now-dead Twitter account called@TOffseason caused Dallas' sports media to melt down by tweeting that the Cowboys' Amari Cooper had been shot in a local parking garage. It never happened. Less than a month later, the Cowboys signed Cooper to a brand new, five-year, $100 million contract.

Wide receiver Amari Cooper, one of the keys to the Cowboys' potential success in 2020.

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7. Dallas police make Mark Hughes wait: Late on the night of July 7, 2016, one of the worst in Dallas history, Dallas police tweeted out a photo of Mark Hughes, identifying him as a suspect in the police shootings that left five officers dead. Hughes had nothing to do with the shooting, but DPD left their tweet of his photo up for hours, even after police killed the alleged shooter, Micah X. Johnson, with a bomb robot.

Maybe a simple "This isn't the guy!" clarification would've helped.

Mark Hughes was mistaken for Micah X. Johnson, the black man who killed officers on July 7, 2016.

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Stephen Young has written about Dallas news for the Observer since 2014. He's a Dallas native and a graduate of the University of North Texas.

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Netflix will work hard to bring the live-action adaptation of the classic Cowboy Bebop anime series, this will feature several changes, including their clothing.

Various jokes are generated on social networks about how Netflix is dedicated to making live-action adaptations of each of the anime series that are popular with the public or, to be honest, the formula has worked for them, so what they will continue to do for a long time to come.

Anime fans are aware of how difficult it can be to translate the action scenes we see in the anime into real action . Not to mention, its quite a cost to match the themes, settings, colors, and actions of the characters with the use of special effects.

In most cases the original product is respected by making only small changes that do not give a totally different twist to the story, although if that were the case probably many of the fans would not forgive that Faye Valentine from Cowboy Bebop completely change your story or your outfits for the new series that is being produced by the Netflix streaming platform .

The series was originally produced and directed by Shinichir Watanabe in 1998. Cowboy Bebop sets us in the plot of a group of bounty hunters trying to survive the year 2071 while reconciling with their present and past. Something striking from the first chapter that shows different things from different times

As crazy as it sounds to you, if you have never seen the anime you will find it strange at first that the series is set in a future where commercial space travel is not only a reality, the plot takes us to the jeans productions of the old west while exploring themes like poverty and loneliness.

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