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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFor everyone deleting their Facebook (and Twitter) accounts
Make sure you delete your DU account too. Because we're powered by funds that Discussionist brings in as well. And that place is full of some very terrible things too.
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For everyone deleting their Facebook (and Twitter) accounts (Original Post)
Blue_Adept
Sep 2017
OP
But it's enabling racists and likely any number of white supremacists as well
Blue_Adept
Sep 2017
#2
we can do it
(12,118 posts)1. I don't think it took funds from Russia.
Blue_Adept
(6,384 posts)2. But it's enabling racists and likely any number of white supremacists as well
hlthe2b
(101,730 posts)3. Well, we could worry about the one N. Korean with a handgun or the DPRK's nuclear armaments...
Scale of impact is really everything.
revmclaren
(2,488 posts)4. And the difference in size of Facebook to Discussionist
Is that of a house fly to an F16.
Although I dislike the whole concept of Discussionist, it's much easier to monitor a small message board than a monster like Facebook.
samnsara
(17,572 posts)5. im confused as to why we would even disable any of our accts