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Comment by gorwell

3 days ago

X is still ground zero for news, and it saved free speech. In the fullness of time and distance it will be viewed by historians as one of the most important events in history.

Your post gets shadow banned for the word cisgender on X... the only speech it saved was low effort trolling, misinformation and hate speech. Musk's version of free speech is just changing the dials on the moderation machines to boost speech he prefers and shadow ban speech his doesn't.

Oh for sure, it's so important we should restart the count of years to mark the significance. 2022 will be year 1, the rest 'Anno X'

Legitimately can't tell if this is sarcasm or not. Saved free speech??

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    • Oh, the irony of all of these "free speech" defenders celebrating their "right" to be offensive online, when the OG free speech (1st Amendment) is actively being attacked and dismantled by a regime that they likely worship.

      Their viewpoints border on religious zealotry and it's pointless to try and reason with them.

    • You are projecting. Nazis were against free speech and big on censorship and ideological conformity. You are aligned with them.

  • Yes, it did. Every large platform including Twitter was censoring its users due to state pressure. Even Facebook has since admitted that they were told to censor information that was true, and they knew to be true.

    • What are you basing this on? Because:

      https://www.carolinapoliticalreview.org/editorial-content/20...

      > the report shows X’s dedication to content moderation by suspending millions of accounts and removing harmful posts, which could potentially help rebuild trust among users concerned with safety and dangerous behavior. On the other hand, this increased moderation contradicts Musk’s earlier promise of promoting free speech, something he has been very vocal about, potentially alienating users who see X becoming more restrictive.

    • You mean the story about Hunter Biden's laptop? That story? About Hunter Biden supposedly selling access to the president?

      I find it odd now that Trump is in office and has the entirety of the government to investigate corruption in the executive office he's suddenly gone silent about that.

      I guess that means that the executive office is now free of any taint of corruption!

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