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by ivan_gammel 758 days ago
In the countries with free speech the effect is not chilling at all. Do you remember “Je suis Charlie”?
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do you remember how they changed their profile pictures to include a transparent french flag? do you also remember how the majority didn't share the actual cartoons that were used to justify the attacks? if the virtue signallers did, the social media companies would have censored it. if the virtue signallers did and the social media companies didn't censor it, there would have been additional riots and the companies would have been banned in ~20 countries.