Too much power and wealth in irresponsible hands.

Blue Sky!!!

Bluesky is built around portability, creative people can move their stuff to a whole new provider and move ‘their address’ to a new host (keeping your followers)
https://nycjournals.com/2025/07/21/instagram-suspends-zohran-mamdanis-account-leaked-memo-cites-national-interest-as-meta-tilts-right/

Because they control data and public discourse.

Big food or pharma or Wall Street also need to be broken up, but I would start with tech to get the most bang for your buck.

but no one seems to have the will to enforce them.

Corporations and the robber barons who own them tend to spread money around so that nearly everyone is somewhat beholden to them.

I'd hope they cancel their META accounts (Facebook, Instagram, and whatever else) immediately. Easy for me to say, given I have never registered on any of them, but again.. Democracy, Free Speech, and pushing back against authoritarianism are the issues.

Something about this story is off. His account being suspended for being too socialist, and then turned back on within hours, is not how tech companies operate.

I suspect the definition is just another way of saying "too Liberal" or "too humanitarian".

Those damn countries that always rank as the top best countries in the world to live in and be the happiest people on planet Earth.

Can't have that in merika... the richest of the rich countries in the world (well, for a handful of right-wing oligarchs).

yet also highly regulated capitalist sectors that work synergistically with expansive social welfare systems to produce some of the highest standards of living on the planet.

Here in Sweden, the actual socialist and/or communist parties (the largest one by far now is called Vänsterpartiet aka The Left Party) have never been officially in a Government (Regeringen). At times they have been in a 'confidence and suppy' scheme with my party here, The Social Democrats, the overall single largest Party in Sweden on balance, over most of the past century or so.

The Swedish Social Democrats have ofttimes had a pretty antagonistic relationship over the last century with the actual socialist and communist parties.

If you can't beat your opponent at the ballot box, you just silence his voice.

How very tyrant-like. The times we are a-living.

In Mamdani's case, I don't think this will work.

No one else is reporting this story, "David Howard" doesn't exist as a "political communications expert," etc., etc., etc. Get some media literacy, people!

Amazing accomplishment for a 1 month old website!

Alejandra Caraballo's story doesn't mention any news of Instagram suspending Zohran Mamdani's account.

"NYC Journals" is clearly a fake new source (hint: the 'about' section doesn't give contact or ownwership info). The news of Zohran Mamdani's account being suspended does not turn up from any other source.

The article appeared before he was dropped on Insta. My uncertainty is about The Dissident publication. I’m not familiar with it. Perusing back issues, it seems to be a real endeavor.

Here’s the “About” page. I didn’t find “NYC Journals.” But I’ll continue my research. Thanks for the direction.

You said "This article is frightening" and I misread that as referring to the original post's news, and was expecting the article you quoted to directly report the news of the OP. I was referring to the about page on the NYC Journals site, as that site appear to be complete AI generated trash.

The Dissident appears to me to be legit, though more of a one-person blog vs. a normal news source. E.g. every article is written by Alejandra Caraballo and there's no sign of a team.

We won't forget it!

I hope he wins and wins big.

... yeah, Russia gave socialism a bad name, but the fundamental meaning hasn't changed:

SOCIALISM IS PUTTING THE WELFARE OF SOCIETY – PEOPLE – AHEAD OF THE BEST INTERESTS OF CAPITALISM, WHICH ARE, SELDOM, IF EVER, IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF SOCIETY AS A WHOLE.

It is worth noting that Mamdani's political positions are essentially the same as those of Bernie Sanders*. No one has claimed that Bernie is a threat to "National Interests". No, of course not; Bernie's White. Zohran is one a dem dere dreaded brown people. This whole thing reeks of Trump's obscene, stomach-turning bigotry.
I wake up every morning hoping to read Trump's obituary. And weaseldick Zuckerberg can kiss my ass. If his lips aren't glued to Trump's ample posterior.

*I've met, and spoken with, Bernie on several occasions, and I know him to be a good man who keeps his promises to his constituents, and me in particular. Anyone tempted to trash-talk Bernie will want to reconsider. My verbal wood chipper is oiled up and eager to dispense fresh compost.

time to delete this post.

On archive.org, its home page was, in June 2019 (the latest archive before this month), just an index leading to a page to sign in - in Turkish ("Şifremi unuttum!" = "I forgot my password!" )

https://web.archive.org/web/20190630150939/https://nycjournals.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20181028082609/http://nycjournals.com/e-flow/pages/login.php