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Thanks for your comment,

full disclosure, I dont publish anything, just off and on comments re stories of interest on TFP, Daily Wire etc.

I feel you are confused though. To get your "message" out there, on your own website, you must use a platform. I have gmail. IF gmail (google) were pressured by the admin, or other countries governments to limit "misinformation, hate speech, etc", then they can easily turn off those messages. Thus limiting free speech. You can see folks who post on Youtube. Same thing applies, if Youtube is pressured, they can easily reduce ones exposure to the world.

I dont see X doing this , or doing this to any degree. The typical "inciting violence" , or "threatening someones life" on line, exceptions are minimal on X.

I feel Musk has stood his ground on what he is pressured to limit.

I think of Fuckerburg and Meta, who now admits to caving to government pressure and FBI "threats" and actively sensored and limited exposure to election issues, serious covid concerns etc. I feel he did this because he wants to be out in front of the fallout that is coming from all the government sensorship and curtailment of free speech the past 8+ years. Think about it, none of this occurred prior to Trump running for president in 2015-2016. Suddenly, we need to ensure our "democracy is secure", and people only see "fair and balanced news". What a croc of shit.

take care

and "Go Elon"

Rich

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The other thing I don't get about X is: X/Twitter exists for about 10 years. So, if X is indeed essential for free speech and democracy, how could society ever evolve before X was invented? How is it that people put so much faith in X, when society has come so far before X was invented?

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Respectfully the news media is not he same as your parents. Journalism is dead in regards to the national news media that is why people are turning to platforms like X, Podcasts and other outlets that don't restrict opinions, stories or suppress information.

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So what if you just host your own website on your own server?

Then you can just write what you want to write and don't have to bow down to anyone.

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