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I consider myself part of the "absolute free speech crowd". Here's the secret; they cannot monitor speech in the real world. So I largely gave up on the inter

I consider myself part of the "absolute free speech crowd". Here's the secret; they cannot monitor speech in the real world. So I largely gave up on the internet. I still use it for bill pay and maps. I spend time speaking with others as we please without phones around. Users are akin to Pokemon for big tech. They "gotta catch em all" those eyeballs so online speech will be Disneyfied to increase engagement, justify their resource use and political existence.

bediger4000 9mo ago
Well I'll tell you what, it looks like Taibbi, Greenwald, Weiss and the absolute freedom of speech brigade used the language of free speech advocacy to get an autocrat and an oppressive regime installed, and then cynically dropped freedom of speech as a worn out tool. It looks like famous free speech advocates are just fine with limiting speech to topics they like and by people they like. It makes them look like liars.