Thinking Out Loud

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Thinking Out Loud
Thinking out loud
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Meanwhile, back at the capital dome, the leadership of the congressional gerontocracy continued to snooze, raise funds for the next election, and almost daily demonstrate to the world (during rare public appearances) their quite literal mental incompetence (in a strict medical sense of the term). #covid
When users went to Threads to search for content related to β€œcovid” and β€œlong covid,” they were met with a blank screen that showed no search results and a pop-up linking to the website of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Meta acknowledged in a statement to The Washington Post that Threads is intentionally blocking the search terms #censorship #covid
Google protects its franchise through a form of payola, shelling out billions of dollars annually to be the default search engine on the iPhone and on web browsers such as Apple’s Safari and Mozilla’s Firefox. β€œGoogle pays more than $10 billion per year for these privileged positions,’’ #monopoly #google