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and come to think of it, the billionaire cabal at the head of technological, computerized businesses, some of whom are Trump appointees-- the ones pushing this artificial intelligence, AI, a scourge upon humanity--

And the comment sailed on through.

There are only two conclusions one can reach: that the technicians maintaining, operating, adjusting, whatever it is that humans can be said to do with an algorithm, have made adjustments to it that cause it to reject unnamed violations having nothing to do with the stated "Community guidelines," or that there are actual people employed whose work it is to scan comments boards and reject those which express unfavorable comments about the Trump-Musk government and aspects of the electronic industry in general, including AI.

This not the first time I have made comments about the dominance of the computer in--- and over-- people's lives and had them rejected by Microsoft.

However, this is the first time I have ever decided to save the part of the post I removed which was verboten and present my case against Microsoft censorship publicly on other social media where more of my readers are-- Facebook, and the most established reading and thinking-before-they-write community I know-- OpEdNews. I thank you for your readership over the years!


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