BeefySleet

Do you just take dumps and piss out in the water? Or is there a washroom in that little tube?

The first amendment and the concept/idea of “free speech” are two different things. Are you really ok with a handful of tech companies being the thought police of what can and cannot be said online?

It already is over 95% unredacted. The stuff that was redacted was grand jury stuff which is standard procedure to block.

Yes but those platforms gained traction by promising to allow all voices to be heard, and to be open to everyone. Once they got huge market share and ran everyone else out of business they started clamping down based on their very narrow ideologies (all radical left views held by the Silicon Valley employees).

You can’t even make competitors anymore due to payment processors like visa not allowing certain people to use their services (like the owner of Gab), and Google by dropping all of their ad revenues and denying them access to Adsense to stay afloat (like thefederalist).

So these companies lied to get their foot in the door, gained all the market share, and then conspired to remove “wrongthink” from their platforms in pretty sweeping fashion, especially during an election year. The fact that Reddit openly removed a subreddit dedicated to the current president, while being partially owned by China, should be a huge red flag.

These companies should be supporting free speech, even if they don’t legally need to. The justifications for t_D was also a joke. An article by mediamatters sparked it all by taking a couple comments about Oregon politicians and cops in a screenshot and writing an article about it. They weren’t even upvoted comments, and the users were unverified.

It would be like if r/politics got banned because Breitbart wrote an article with a couple screenshots of bad shit people said and Reddit complied. Hell, in the last month I’ve seen disgusting and hateful comments across every subreddit towards cops. You even have r/bad_cop_no_donut which isn’t even quarantined yet they post worse shit about cops than t_d ever did.

Just because most of these Silicon Valley billionaires are on your “side” doesn’t mean you should be happy that they’re judge, jury, and executioner when it comes to free speech online, since we’re in a digital era, these spaces are essentially the “town square” now.