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The classic definition was basically the freedom to criticize your government without repercussions.

Conservatives now define it as the permission to spread deliberate misinformation and overt racism and bigotry without consequences from either the government OR private entities.



> spread deliberate misinformation and overt racism and bigotry

Which, in a world where anything you don't like or agree with must be one of those things, is kind of unavodiable.




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