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> When people do it, it's just dissenting voices.

Except when those dissenting voices make credible threats to your person, family, and livelihood or libel and slander you at a volume that is infeasible to litigate.

> I little sympathy for people getting upset at being deplatformed - they can go elsewhere

Where can they go when all of the major social media companies share the same general ideology? This idea that social media networks are plug-and-play beggars belief. Or perhaps you simply meant that people who don't adhere to this ideology simply don't deserve to participate in social media; that it's a privilege and not a right?

> their cries of freedom of expression cry wolf to the constitutional issue of those in power doing actual oppression.

What does this even mean?



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