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by mindslight 1966 days ago
I'm all for more bulletproof hosting, but political hacks are unlikely to be content-disinterested, especially over the long term. Right out of the gate, they're disingenuously framing a "fight for honest and open debate.". But the latest spate of deplatforming had nothing to do with silencing debate. Rather it was an inevitable response to the Big Lie of "Stop the Steal", a bad-faith rallying cry that resulted in real-world violence - hence even AWS getting involved as S230 only covers civil liability. Meanwhile it seems like the biggest threat to actual conservatives (ie those not trying to destroy our institutions) is coming from the Republican party itself.