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Gotta love the constant movement of goalposts and gaslighting around this. As in many other cases it started with claims that nobody intends to censor any conte
by colllectorof 5y ago
Gotta love the constant movement of goalposts and gaslighting around this. As in many other cases it started with claims that nobody intends to censor any content during the move. Then when deletions actually took place the narrative radically shifted to the claim that content removal was always the obvious, natural and reasonable course and there should be no controversy, because it was inevitable all along.
- luckylion 5y agoSounds like they took a page from Ulbricht (Walter, not Ross!): "Nobody has any intention of building a wall", then shortly after starting construction of a wall to imprison the citizens of East Germany, and calling it "the antifascist bulwark". The GDR soldiers that shot fleeing citizens in the back were praised as heroes that defended the glorious Soviet Republic against traitors.
- c06n 5y agoAnother great quote: "It [the installation of a socialist government in East Germany] has to look democratic, but we must control everything."
- HKH2 5y agoJoe himself constructed that narrative and he knew what he signed up for. $100m does that to people. Does anyone need to say that SV is left-leaning? Some of us bought into the idea that Joe's contract protected him from censorship, but now we know that's not the case.