The article talks about manipulation from the US, but the examples are: Cambridge Analytica (which was British, not American), Querdenkers (who were German), and Éric Zemmour (who is French). I mean is this seriously advocating for the censorship of protests coming from the German public?
What these people want is censorship that only allows progressive arguments to flourish. They already have all the laws that make non-progressive speech forbidden, but they are struggling to apply them to companies that are the other side of the pond. Having social networks here would allow them do to so easily. To that I have to say no thanks.
> Cambridge Analytica (which was British, not American),
Saying that the manipulation was done by the UK because Cambridge Analytica happens to be Brittish completely misconstrues what happened.
> Cambridge Analytica was working for United States Senator Ted Cruz using data harvested from millions of people's Facebook accounts without their consent
> Facebook later confirmed that it actually had data on potentially over 87 million users, with 70.6 million of those people from the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana...
It was very much a story of manipulation in the US being done by Americans, even if there were Brittish people involved too.
Your own source contradicts that claim?
"Progressive" is not how I would describe it.
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I don’t remember saying that or anything that remotely resembled that.