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To: Swarthy Greek Immigrant
Having our free speech banned on social media can at least be counteracted by finding a different platform to post on. That's not the kind of free speech suppression that scares me.

What I worry about is seeing the speech codes that every college enforces being adopted by the Federal Govt, with a compliant, packed SCOTUS rubber-stamping every oppressive new law squashing free speech that a Dem House + Senate + WH cares to pass.

They'll start gradually by first banning types of speech that most people find abhorrent. Because that way, anyone fighting against the new law on the basis of free speech principles can easily be painted as actually being a fan of that abhorrent type of speech.

Then all the happy froggies sit there in the pan of nice warm water as it slowly heats.

104 posted on 01/07/2021 9:23:18 PM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC ("May You Live in Interesting Times": Ancient Chinese Curse. The Wuhanic Plague: Modern Chinese Curse)
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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC

It is all part of the same thing. Next will be they scan your online social media and try to get you fired or lose your back account or evicted - that is coming.

This libertarian idea that the free market will bail you out is outdated. The reason Democrats and corporations are now woke allied is because they have come to an agreement. Corporations - especially entities like Google will monopolize certain market segments and in turn will push the Democrat left’s woke agenda. In return Democrats will allow these corporations to function and be protected from the left’s tendency to hate capitalism. This is by the way what fascisim is - aka corpratisim.


105 posted on 01/07/2021 11:00:28 PM PST by Swarthy Greek Immigrant (I am an austere religious scholar that support mostly peaceful protests.)
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