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Seems a difference without a difference to me. In the old days, people could be Flat Earthers if they wanted to. The notion of external opinions being crammed
by smitty1e 6y ago
Seems a difference without a difference to me. In the old days, people could be Flat Earthers if they wanted to.
The notion of external opinions being crammed down through threat of deplatforming and blacklisting is scary stuff.
I urge reconsideration.
- danaris 6y agoGuess what? People can still be Flat Earthers if they want to be. They're absolutely wrong, and stupid, but they're welcome to be so. What they're not welcome to do is inflame the public against the legitimately elected government with easily-disproven lies about the legitimacy of that election. Inflame with differing political opinion? Sure. Inflame with genuine possible electoral tampering? Fine. Believe easily-disproven lies in the privacy of their own heads? Go for it. But once they're trying to spread lies like that—and especially when they use those lies to incite a literal violent insurrection against our government—they've crossed a line.