>Here is the deal: the people most vocal about free speech don’t actually care about free speech. They care about speech being easily monetizable. That’s at the core of their complaints.

http://notes.paul.town/2019/06/free-speech.html

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>That aside, the funniest thing is that censorship isn’t an actual thing that’s really possible
with the advent of the internet and file sharing.

The author is either willfully misrepresenting this or laughably naive.

@joe Then I'd sincerely like to hear your counterpoint.
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Technology has only increased the ways in which censorship can be enacted.

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