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Re:Why we’re removing comments on most of Inquirer.com by cblconfederate on Monday March 15, 2021 @09:35AM (#26465908)
> free speech has been understood to mean in the past.

I actually think the opposite , that in the past free speech was a well guarded liberalist ideal, and we 've regressed to confusing the freedom of internal monologue as free speech.

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Re:Why we’re removing comments on most of Inquirer.com by alchemism on Monday March 15, 2021 @10:07AM (#26466234)
The people banned from Twitter or otherwise 'censored' by private business are still free to use a literal soapbox in the literal town square to communicate with fellow citizens.

It does require more effort though; there is that.

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Re:Why we’re removing comments on most of Inquirer.com by cblconfederate on Monday March 15, 2021 @10:14AM (#26466312)
not in a pandemic
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