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There's a guy in my area that legally named himself Hitler and drives around in a car covered with swastikas. He's not gained any followers, just ridicule and a bunch of court orders for being shitty to his children. Nobody wants to be him.

Building the tools to better censor is a slippery slope that moves quickly from silencing extremists to silencing activists.

>Would that make you reconsider if the holocaust really happened?

Pulling the h-card out as a cudgel in every single political argument has reduced people's ability to reflect or care about it. Same as the 'think of the children' arguments. It's an emotionally manipulative and dishonest debate method.



I watched yesterday as programmer in Belarus gets killed by having unfavorable view of government.

Please protect 2nd amendment, free speach and privacy. Also would be nice to solve internet polarisation and economics of propaganda somehow.




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