• comrade_twisty@feddit.org
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    10 hours ago

    Maybe we just need to ban all social media for the last 2 weeks leading up to an election, similar to how many countries ban publishing polls in the final stretch before an election.

    • hopesdead@startrek.website
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      8 hours ago

      I might be wrong, but the UK I believe has laws against the media talking about elections like the day before and day of polling.

    • KittyKalledKarma@slrpnk.net
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      9 hours ago

      That’s just blanket censorship, breaking up social media companies and forcing their federation, shut down is a better deal imo.

      Simply banning mass forms of communication is backwards and will obviously lead to accusations of rigging for the incumbent party.

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      10 hours ago

      Maybe we need to find the spine to auto-lock/auto-ban all such enemy-agent bots.

      WELL past-time we did-so.

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