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		bosswipe on Dec 5, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Maybe we shouldn't want a fully decentralized web The New York Times didn't come up with the idea of the Iraq War. The Iraq War was the official policy of the United States government.

keiferski on Dec 5, 2020 [–]

They facilitated the war (through making it publicly acceptable) and made it easier to enact, just as social media supposedly facilitates terrorism.

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