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0 pointskrapp4y ago0 comments

It is not effectively censorship. Censorship is not effective if it merely makes communication slightly less convenient.

>Do you remember when Trump was banned from Twitter?!?

Yes, and he deserved it. And yet everything Donald Trump says and does still gets national press coverage, and he's starting his own social media platform with a backlog of millions of followers. It's garbage, but that isn't censorship's fault.

We should all wish to be so censored.

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verisimi4y ago· 1 in thread

> We should all wish to be so censored.

Good god.

Do you ever think you're part of the problem? Should we censor people who have a different opinion?

krappOP4y ago

Being banned from Twitter isn't censorship. Donald Trump wasn't "censored" for having a different opinion. Nor was Donald Trump "censored" in any way that actually interfered with or hindered his ability to communicate.

People really should stop picking Trump as an example of a martyr to the cause of free speech, he's a really bad one. I know they want the narrative to be that "cancel culture" was just so powerful that it silenced a sitting President but it's just not working out that way.

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