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[-] [email protected] 59 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Literally why would you go to this website over Reddit. It has all the same problems and is just more boring.

"Free speech" is just a dog whistle and gas lighting now. Unless it's fully allowing illegal content, then it's not free speech, which is obviously sane to not allow. That's why its a silly term to throw around in the first place.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

“Free speech” is just a dog whistle and gas lighting now.

You're not wrong, but I remember when free speech was more of a liberal issue. Freedom for artistic expression and all that. Freedom to curse in music, freedom to create and view porn etc.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

How is this gas lighting though?

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

I don't think people really know what gas lighting is :p.

Relatedly, whether you understand the term or not, go watch the movie Gaslight where it comes from. Great film.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

I'd go watch the movie, but my partner says that I'm too sick and clumsy to get out of bed right now. I don't know where I'd be if they weren't around to keep me straight, always reminding me of things I've said and done when I have moments of brain fog.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

You wouldn't go watch the movie, you've never even seen a movie.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Where the jewels?!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I don't necessarily agree with the use of the term in this context, but I took it to mean that it's gaslighting in the sense that when you call it out as a dog whistle meaning "you can now be a POS on our platform", people can respond with stuff like "Wow, so you're anti-free speech? Do you hate America? Why do you want to censor people?" And shit like that, which is gaslighting IMO

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Everything is gaslighting when you don't actually know what gaslighting means but just want to use the latest term all your liberal friends use.

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