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The president of the United States was kicked off Twitter in 2020. Parler was removed from the App Store in 2020.

"Now" is a lot different than 4-5 years ago.



And Trump managed to create an entire replacement Twitter for him to run.

Moderation from various platforms is not the same as silencing people. It is vastly easier for fascists to share their evil today than ever before in history.


.. which are actions by private institutions, not affronts to free speech. And, might I remind everyone, where because of legitimate calls to violence which did actually result in a real insurrection, for real.

I mean, it's not like these were just empty words. People did actually die. Donald Trump did, and still does, repeat a lot of lies with the intention of sowing chaos and violence.


... what is your point with these anecdotes? Neither of those things made it less possible to find out what Donald Trump or a bunch of groypers think about anything.




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