• hperrin@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    The government can absolutely shut down the internet and telecommunications. They can also send propaganda straight to your phone that you can’t stop.

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      7 hours ago

      I dunno if this is anyone else but me, but, in the US this weekend, I heard a radio advertisement on our local Clear Channel / CBS station that was just a guy without music, forcefully stating that “tariffs are a matter of national security.”

      That was honestly so surreal that I wasn’t sure if I had imagined it.

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      1 day ago

      One time I was at the internet place picking up a new router. The internet in the area had just gone down and angry people were literally coalescing upon the store like zombies.

      Godspeed to anyone who turns the data off to America