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> For funny memes it is not a big deal, but for social and political discourse it is devaststing.

I'm afraid that's the point.

Western governments, while pointing fingers at china, russia or <insert brown country>, have been hard at work trying to find creative ways to implement soft censorship (ie: don't outright ban the content or shutdown the website, but considerably limit their potential reach on dubious grounds such as copyright infringement).

Totalitarianism is slowly creeping up on us.




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