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Re:Twitter limits users interacting with Trump's tweets abou... by anigbrowl on Saturday December 12, 2020 @03:04PM (#25401144)
A different way to look at this is to consider that 'the left' has already been through this, repeatedly, and is exploring ways to directly counter right-wing propaganda rather than passively sit back and assume the 'marketplace of ideas' will just take care of it as centrists tend to do.
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Re:Twitter limits users interacting with Trump's tweets abou... by SauciestGNU on Saturday December 12, 2020 @06:17PM (#25402727)
It's unfortunate you're being downvoted for this, as it's true. It's literally illegal to teach anti-capitalist political philosophy in the UK, but there's endless whining about private corporations acting as they see fit with their own property.

Speaking as a leftist, I assume that corporations view me and my ideology as an enemy and would silence me and others like me if we became too influential. I don't think compelled speech is the answer, and I don't believe I have any intrinsic right to use social media to amplify my messages.

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Re:Twitter limits users interacting with Trump's tweets abou... by anigbrowl on Sunday December 13, 2020 @08:16PM (#25412297)
It's literally illegal to teach anti-capitalist political philosophy in the UK

Do tell? I haven't been there in a long time and don't have time to keep up with education policy.

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Re:Twitter limits users interacting with Trump's tweets abou... by SauciestGNU on Monday December 14, 2020 @02:25PM (#25421962)
From the article I am providing a link to[0]:

>Department for Education (DfE) guidance issued on Thursday for school leaders and teachers involved in setting the relationship, sex and health curriculum categorised anti-capitalism as an “extreme political stance” and equated it with opposition to freedom of speech, antisemitism and endorsement of illegal activity

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/sep/27/uk-schools...

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