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I think it's obvious that if less people speak their mind, we could have a smarter, happier humanity.

But I also think it's obvious that I shouldn't trust you to make the decision of who needs to shut up. And definitely not the government.

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tenebrisalietum5y ago· 1 in thread

> But I also think it's obvious that I shouldn't trust you to make the decision of who needs to shut up. And definitely not the government.

Well right now social media companies seem to have that power. How is that better?

I hear this point all the time. Is there a better response than this?

> Well right now social media companies seem to have that power. How is that better?

It's not; we're attempting to fix that, and TFA is about Google maliciously attacking one such attempt.

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