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When Twitter censored content on its private property, it was a veritable scandal around here generating thousands of comments across many submissions. Our resident free speech absolutists bellowed from their soapboxes for weeks.

Here we have the actual government making a bid to require ISPs to censor information about abortion.

crickets

I’m shocked I say…shocked.

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Twitter actually amplifies conservatives more than liberals but conservatives love playing the victim and then pull stunts like this and book banning. Reactionary logic is mind boggling

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2021/rml-polit...

Ron Desantis really isn’t even hiding the fact that he and the Florida legislature took adverse action against Disney for their political speech. What’s really alarming is that it’s gotten to the point that they’re realizing they don’t need to pretend otherwise.

wondering if you're talking about a twitter event pre-Elon (so people on the right were mad at the twitter exec) or post-Elon (so people on the left were mad at the twitter exec).

Guessing the former, since that would put the juxtaposition you're highlighting in left vs right terms...

Yes, I’m referring to the many very active discussions that occurred after Elon made “censorship of conservatives” on Twitter his pet issue which ultimately led to the Musk/Twitter circus. It coincidently became the pet issue of many around here at the exact same time. At the time it was supposedly about the importance of protecting the principles of free speech.

It’s become evident since then that it was really about protecting their preferred speech. Some of us suspected as much at the time.

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