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I don’t get this take at all. The current administration uses bad faith claims of censorship to bully companies into advantaging speech they like (anti-science
by brookst 1y ago
I don’t get this take at all.
The current administration uses bad faith claims of censorship to bully companies into advantaging speech they like (anti-science, anti-trans, anti-democracy, etc). They haven’t shown any interest in actual freedom of speech.
And OP’s use of “censorship” is pretty disingenuous; there is no claim that any free speech topic is in the table. No viewpoint is suppressed because no viewpoint is asserted.
It’s simple commercial lead gen. Google might be engaging in anticompetitive behavior, but this administration is very much a “might makes right” operation, and it’s hard to imagine them siding with a small player with no conservative bona fides and presumably no money to pay to play.
The only way I could imagine OP getting any relief would be to go full MAGA, list a bunch of travel options for hunting gays or whatever, donate at least a million dollars to Trump’s personal coffers, and then tell and scream about oppression of conservatives.
A simple “Walmart thanks suppliers for the market information but will only sell store brand products” case seems incredibly unlikely to get any traction at all.