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For all the flaws that the US has, my understanding is that it does have comparatively strong free speech protection compared to moat of the world. Would you mind sharing why you feel that that isn't the case?


Freedom of speech in the US is strong, but its failure to carry over into private contexts makes it largely symbolic in the 21st century. The fact that you cannot make a YouTube video expressing concerns about COVID-19 or election fraud, since it will be censored, is a shining example of the failure of freedom of speech.

Many people think that censorship is something that only a government is capable of doing, and that it doesn’t apply to corporations. But when multinational corporations like Google have more power, and more wealth than the GDPs of half the world’s countries, that thinking falls flat on its face.

This proposed Polish law is the strongest form of anti-censorship that I’ve ever seen.




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