Speech control ‘protects’ only those who are allowed to speak, those who have power or are designated voices of power. Speech control is legally protected narcissism. It protects the lies of those in power and nothing more.
If you think back on how many times you have been offended or badly misled by free speech, you won’t find many if you find any at all. Just pretending there is any need to censor speech is a lie.
As for X, it is a disaster. A waste of time because the algorithms, however they work, curate not just your voice but others as well, so your feed become a small echo tunnel of algorithmic repetition. Musk should have bought Reddit and removed the censorship and algorithms on that platform instead of Twitter, where he has only somewhat curated the curators, not removed them.
Reddit is capable of fostering discussions with clear contexts and promotes links to sources outside of itself, which X does not even allow without causing your voice to be muted. Right now, Reddit can be as bad as FB or X, but in some areas it can be very good. These areas are the ones where elite liars and parasites feel no need to intrude on the people’s voices. Go to any of them and notice how vibrant and informative they can be.
How often are you offended on those subs (typically apolitical)? How often do you see a need for censorship? Never. The only problem ever is a natural hive mind can develop and there can be too much silliness.
The natural hive minds you can see with regularity on Reddit are examples of basal human conformity in action. Elite censorship of speech is entirely designed to funnel people into hive minds constructed by them. The more of us who understand this, the better. ABN
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