> The "Defend Women" line is a perfect tactic for TERFs to use, and they use it early and often. Yeah, it's wild. Meghan Murphy [1] has a lot of guests on who

> The "Defend Women" line is a perfect tactic for TERFs to use, and they use it early and often. Yeah, it's wild. Meghan Murphy [1] has a lot of guests on who discuss this topic. Some of it is pretty eye opening because the issue is only briefly touched upon via established media, aside from right wing sources. I guess that just provides opportunity for independent journalists to grow by telling such stories. I never believed that other media would turn away stories based on ideology until I heard stories from child transitioners who later detransitioned. And I only got plugged into that by randomly reading commentary about Cloudflare blocking Kiwi Farms [2]. Anyway, it turns out that institutions, made up of humans, display human-like flaws. Who knew? > The fact they could use hate speech laws to silence a minority is the troubling thing. It is and it isn't. I think society largely agrees that, at least, most words are not violence. And while we do dip into pretty heavy censorship territory once in awhile, and it does breed a lot of distrust and hate, it also garners more support for free speech. It's clear to more and more every day that censorship, particularly the secretive censorship that pervades social media and IMO is the biggest issue which we should therefore tackle, does not work. Disinfo experts have been promising for years that just one more round of censorship and elections will finally, once and for all, kill off all hatred and discontent, just like people who claim AGI is just around the corner. It hasn't happened, it's not happening, and it's time to go back to our roots, free speech and counter speech. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0OLsb2TJyQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0OLsb2TJyQ [2] https://corinnacohn.substack.com/p/the-world-should-not-need-kiwi-farms https://corinnacohn.substack.com/p/the-world-should-not-need...