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  "createdAt": "2025-08-24T12:57:35.006Z",
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      "description": "Users on the Discuss platform on the forgotten 1970s computer program PLATO were threatened by the Pentagon when they tried to impeach the president.",
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      "title": "Nixon Tried to Shut Down the World’s First Online Message Board",
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  "text": "\u003e Online was the inevitable future for activism.\n\n\u003e The White House’s reaction to this is significant in that this may be the first time in history … that a government threatened to shut down people communicating over a computer network because it did not like what they were saying."
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