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On Free Speech
- raxxorrax 5y agoShort, concise and excellent without much to add in my opinion.
- trompetenaccoun 5y agoWow. I don't use freenode so I can't speak on that but what the American government is doing here is extremely worrying. They're dismantling open society.
- geofft 5y agoThis post criticizes a politician for having a former employee who was allegedly formerly a member of an IRC channel, other members of which did bad things. Is this not cancel culture?
- daveoc64 5y agoIt meets the definition on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancel_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancel_culture). Unfortunately, the term tends to result in a lot of hypocrisy, as people tend to only call it "cancelling" when it's someone they like or agree with.
- herbst 5y agoAmerica is cancelling itself. At least this is prolly the best possible outcome for the rest of the world. Indeed dystopian what they describe here, yet it seems so realistic and 'normal' these days
- ac42 5y agoLol. Mr Lee really has the balls to opine on free speech! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27286628 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27286628
- gus_massa 5y ago> who helped spread the smear campaign against myself and freenode. This is related to freenode.net changes and massive migration to libera.chat . Relevant coverage in Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenode#Ownership_change_and_conflict https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenode#Ownership_change_and_...
- blibble 5y agoseems unlikely that Biden knows who Andrew Lee is or what freenode is...