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1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2019 08:19:47 EDT Strypey

   #FarceBook begins the erection of the Border Firewall of the US. No doubt goOgle and other US tech corporations will soon roll out their sections of the wall:
   https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/385827/facebook-ban-what-can-it-do-and-will-it-work

   1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2019 08:21:22 EDT Strypey

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      As with its Chinese and EU counterparts (Great Firewall and Copyright Firewall), the US Border Firewall will not be effective in preventing communication among the targeted groups, will tangle millions of people up in false positives, and will lead to chilling effects on legitimate #FreeSpeech and other erosions of the #CivilLiberties that are essential to protecting democracy from creeping fascism. It's almost as it if it's designed to achieve the opposite of its stated goals ...