Matthew Wise Explains Why Social Control Media is Bad and We Need to Revert Back to Private, Self-Hosted Blogging
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2022-04-03 13:50:29 UTC
- Modified: 2022-04-03 13:50:29 UTC
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- We're now better off
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- numbers released hours ago
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- Applying to others the same standards one is willing to violate?
