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Comment by fragmede

10 hours ago

Who's still claiming the US has free speech?

Freedom House. But then again, most of their funding comes from the US state department.

People who frame UK as oppressive hellhole, but somehow like former Hungarian leader and know all the talking points of the American conservative right.

  • Moreover, the repeating talking points of these people seemed to exclusively be around some cases where police intervened for certain comments on transgender issues (and imo indeed police shouldn't). It was a big issue back then, but when police intervenes now (mostly UK/germany) for certain comments on the palestinean issues, or when bank accounts are blocked for this reason (under cross-border requests from the US no less), they no longer seem to care. Makes you think whether they did not really care as much about free speech itself, actually.

    • > exclusively be around some cases where police intervened for certain comments on transgender issues

      Those tended to be gratuitously misreported as well, where the reports would say "this person was arrested for making [relatively innocuous comment] on social media]" and then you discover that the actual issue was a lengthy period of harassment and doxing directed at a specific trans person. Or encouraging other people to burn down a hotel, or so on.