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I remember a decade ago that Freedom of Speech was a pretty common sentiment shared here and pretty much everywhere online. Today though, that freedom is no longer even prized over the rights of private mega corps, sometimes doing the bidding of the government.

On one hand it's encouraging to read your take, but I have no faith that in another 10 years, the government scanning all our devices for "misinformation" that the then regime deems as such, will be anything but hand waved away by the majority of SV employees as "it's the law".




“They’re just consequences for abusing your right to privacy,” they’ll eventually explain.




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