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What about blocking an article about Hunter Biden's laptop?

What's bs to you, may not be to someone else. Speech is way larger than just facts. I wouldn't want to live in a society where opinions are not allowed.

Free speech is important and it's already not including violence (eg. Screaming fire in a crowded place is a crime and not covered by free speech). We don't need tech politicised censors on their platforms-not-platforms and we don't need hate speech restrictions.



>What's bs to you, may not be to someone else.

That doesn't make it not BS.

I think facts are real things.


I applaud this objectivist stance (I think we all agree facts exist) but speech can be about interpretations of facts.

If you want the fact can be "The New Yorker claims these photos of Hunter Biden smoking crack are real".

Despite that, the article was censored on Big Tech's platforms and the NYT called it unsubstantiated. 9 months later they conveniently removed "unsubstantiated" from their article.

But don't worry, all is good, it obviously wasn't election manipulation /s https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1437453951046127629

It's funny to note how Big Tech's didn't censor posts about Russiagate, which actually ended up being unsubstantiated.




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