• Maple Engineer@lemmy.world
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    The rep also said it is a “threat to hate speech when people can mass report a page and get someone banned–because they broke the rules. Today, the opponents of hate speech are targeting Candace, but anyone who spreads hate speech could be next.”

    Sounds about right to me.

    Does anyone here remeber when, “free speech” and “Conservative speech” didn’t mean hate speech, racism, lies, misinformation and Russian anti-American propaganda?

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        I became politically aware - as in I could name more politicians than just the head of state for big countries - in my late teens. I’m now 41. Never remember such a time

        Furthermore reading history doesn’t help disabuse me of that notion either.

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        I just translated it to non-shitheal.

        It’s likewhen Trump says, “If I can be prosecuted for paying hush money to a porn star that I fucked while my wife was at home caring for my newborn son then lying about it and falsifying business records to cover it up to interfere in an election then it can happen to anyone who pays hush money to a porn star that they fucked while their wife was at home caring for their newborn son then lying about it and falsifying business records to cover it up to interfere in an election.”

        I just can’t see myself ever being in that position.

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        The idiocy of the statement is still in tact

        I like how the meaning of this sentence changes with the gratuitous space.