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How can we possibly stop this madness? Will it require draconian legislation and enforcement?

Increasingly I think that "free speech" should apply to humans only, not to humans armed with a gas-powered bullshit spewer.

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In the US, free speech protections are very selective (depending on what you planning to say). The rest of the Western world does not even have the laws protecting free speech. No need to worry.

Regardless of the legal protections of free speech, the general notion worldwide is that corporations are allowed to create and post whatever nonsense they feel like with utter impunity. It's one thing for a single person to write the timecube, it's another entirely to promulgate fact-checker robots which completely obscure the real facts with utter bullshit. We could all see this coming from miles away. I see definite need to worry.

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