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[1] https://wikipedia.org/wiki/May_2019_Jakarta_protests_and_rio...
Noam Chomsky - The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M
Regarding the "controlled substance" bit, Stripe actually says Kratom mimics known drugs which is false (nature doesn't mimic synthetics). I brought this obvious error up with Stripe in my Twitter DM and I'd bet dollars to donuts they don't have a say about it nor the power to change their own terms due to Capitalist US regulations working hard to keep Big Pharma's thumb on our noses.
Ignorance is bliss amirite?
This kind of language is very wishy-washy and leaves everything to the imagination. 9/10 times the issue is terrorism or CP. So which of the two was it? And why aren't you comfortable enough to share that reason with your prospective users?
You're suggesting the challenge was created by Google and that so and so managed to navigate it successfully by obeying Google.
But we don't even know what the issue was. And if the issue isn't available to the general public through transparency or something like an FOIA request what is really being celebrated is the power of a corporation to control free speech over a protocol intended to wrest control of free speech back into the hands of people in the first place.
Limiting access to information such that it cannot be independently verified is far more sinister and nefarious — not to mention consitutionally unsound — than the threat of the bad actor sharing the info in the first place.
In the wake of the temporary Parler shutdown all of us need to be paying close attention to how we receive information. These things cannot be left up to anecdotal stories which delve into little to no detail.