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by 454544545 4y ago
> target counties/municipalities that overwhelmingly voted for a different candidate In this case, it's clearly only an issue a state could deal with. > consistently subvert the will of the people by preempting local governm
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by 454544545 4y ago
DeSantis' actions are the will of the people. The only question is whether it's a violation of a corporation's free speech - and when does anyone ever really care about that. Imagine a scenario where a corporation was talking
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by 454544545 4y ago
This is confirmed by Garcetti 2006: > that because his statements were made pursuant to his position as a public employee, rather than as a private citizen, his speech had no First Amendment protection. https://en.wikipedia.or
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by 454544545 4y ago
The point is that the principle of free speech is far more important than any topic of the day. Enemy of my enemy situation. Everything bad in politics has come from the downward cycle of political parties censoring each other. It takes a l
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by 454544545 4y ago
Which accounts? I saw an article about a bunch of antifa accounts, but they were posting how to disrupt protests with violence which seems like a pretty clear violation.
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by 454544545 4y ago
There are some people I would have liked to follow in my Twitter feed that left Twitter for Mastodon. I wonder what the rules/ethics are on reposting on Twitter without someone's permission.
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by 454544545 4y ago
So you are saying poor communities only commit more crimes because of the policing? The "systematic racism" argument is so broad and unquantifiable and avoids so many other meaningful factors that can actually be addressed. It&#x2
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by 454544545 4y ago
France does this with age-verification for porn sites. Visit pornhub via French vpn to see.
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by 454544545 4y ago
I don't think people are outraged about "bots" being moderated. It's more about huge accounts with non-liberal views like Trump.
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by 454544545 4y ago
> with little benefit. I would say one of the first changes would be to re-instate Trump, which would bring back a huge amount of free marketing. Here is a single account that by far generated the most brand awareness of Twitter than any