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The current debacle with Twitter's (lack of) moderation and "free speech absolutism" is one reason you might make an association between the far/alt-right and f
by spondylosaurus 3y ago
The current debacle with Twitter's (lack of) moderation and "free speech absolutism" is one reason you might make an association between the far/alt-right and free speech* advocacy. All the Nazis who got banned under previous leadership came crawling back almost immediately, and a lot of people who are part of a marginalized groups prone to online vitriol bounced in turn.
*Despite the "free speech" language used in the Twitter conversation, I think free speech is the wrong term to use here anyway since Twitter is a private platform, and private platforms are free to enforce their ToS and moderate accordingly... but it's the term that proliferates so I'll use it regardless.