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> I wonder if a day will ever come when a "X major site banned in the USA" headline crosses HN for speech reasons. We've been surprisingly tolerant of a lot of nonsense from a top-down perspective. The closest we get is a grassroots campaign to get Joe Rogan off Spotify.

[Russia does a thing] Lets talk about the US.

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I might get downvoted for restating this, but for all its faults and headlines in recent years, America truly is built on laissez-faire principles so it’s unlikely to happen.

Proof is the extent to which Alex Jones types of figures have yet to be totally banned by the government, just deplatformed by private social networks.

That being said the conversation about Tik Tok and Chinese ownerships and servers did seem to get close to this.

Nearly every damn thread.

...and to bring this back to Russia - what other social media platforms remain in Russia to get the word out on what's going on in Ukraine.

I truly believe that if most Russians could SEE the death and destruction Putin is causing, he might actually get deposed.

> I truly believe that if most Russians could SEE the death and destruction Putin is causing, he might actually get deposed.

I truly believe that's wishful thinking. Even if most Russians hated Putin, as long as he's got control over a strong domestic security apparatus and continued support from his cronies, he's not going to get deposed.

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