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Friends of liberty should stop whining about how they’re victims of cancel culture and set up their own PayPal if they feel so strongly about it.

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Yes, yes, of course. And women who don't like bro culture in Silicon Valley should set up their own companies. And older workers who think they're being discriminated against should set up old people companies. And those whose views are being suppressed at the University of California should create a 51st state, and a new university to go with it.

pity the right wing polemicist, newest victim needing protected status under the law, and their need to violate the first amendment of the united states by needing compelled speech to foment their fascist blather. So very like Rosa Parks, women, and the elderly.

Yes, pity the right wing polemicist, the left wing polemicist, or anyone else who wishes the freedom to communicate ordinary ideas on our de facto communications utilities.

everyone has that freedom. What they also enjoy is the consequences. There is no 'de facto communication utility' in twitter, or paypal, or anywhere else. See Gab, Truth Social, and so on. The idea that fascist propaganda would hide behind the veil of liberty and weep about victimization is screamingly hilarious.

So do I understand you correctly that you're ok with government exerting control over private companies to achieve progressive goals? You just don't want to expand the power of those like myself who spout fascist propaganda?

What on earth? I didn't say anything remotely interpretable as the first straw man thing you tried to make me say.

Governments aren't exerting control over private companies to deplatform fascists. Thankfully, the private companies are doing that themselves, as is their well-proven, well-supported first amendment right. Google "compelled speech" if you need a primer on this.

I understand that fascists would love it if they were heard all the time, incessantly, everywhere, and that anything less makes them burst out into tears of victimization. I guess Fox News being a bona fide propaganda platform now directly supporting Putin and Orban isn't enough for you guys. What a shame, it must be so distressing.

I did google "compelled speech". That was interesting.

which is all fine and dandy until aforementioned alternative is taken down from the google/apple app stores...

Checks, wire transfers, and cash are all still in play.

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