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I am so disheartened by the term "free speech" in political usage because it does seem to me mostly a rallying call to actually ban speech that the user of the

I am so disheartened by the term "free speech" in political usage because it does seem to me mostly a rallying call to actually ban speech that the user of the term dislikes. I look to how "cisgender" is treated on X worse that most actual ethnic slurs: https://www.fastcompany.com/91126082/elon-musk-x-cisgender-cis-slur https://www.fastcompany.com/91126082/elon-musk-x-cisgender-c... Very few actually want to apply it equally to both their side and the opposing side. I did notice this one group called FIRE that actually does a pretty decent job of applying free speech rights relatively equally, I think we should support it more: https://www.thefire.org https://www.thefire.org

techbananas 2y ago
I’m curious what will happen to FIRE over the next few years. Presumably a lot of their funding over the past few years has come from right leaning sources and presumably they’re going to have to change their tack with the new folks in power.
- larsiusprime 2y ago
  FIRE has been around for decades and has dutifully resisted acquiring a partisan valence
  - mikeyouse 2y ago
    Unfortunately a number of the legal minds behind these terrible laws are former FIRE alum, it was a real bummer when I saw multiple resumes with stints at FIRE.