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giraffe_ladytoday at 7:15 PM4 repliesview on HN

It's right wing censorship plain and simple. Unfashionable to state this.


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iamnotheretoday at 7:24 PM

While this particular bill is all R sponsors, current censorship efforts are bipartisan inside the US and even international in scope. The one ray of hope is that left and right can’t agree on what should be censored or how, or even what constitutes “censorship.”

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raw_anon_1111today at 7:57 PM

You weren’t around when Tipper Gore was raising the alarm about Ice T’s “Cop Killer” (now “ICE Killer” since he has been playing a cop on TV for a quarter century) or NWA and “F%%% the Police”

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themafiatoday at 8:34 PM

This isn't about ideology. This is about money and control.

b65e8bee43c2ed0today at 7:31 PM

which 'wing' cheered loudly when every platform openly suppressed their political opponents during the last decade, and frothed in impotent rage when one of those platforms unexpectedly changed hands and ceased the censorship?

somehow, censorship is only bad when the wrong side does it. when the correct side does it, it's justified and necessary for your democracies to survive.

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