The censoring is being done by private companies. The idea of "freedom" is that those companies can do whatever the hell they want with their private property including censorship. I disagree with @
r3volution in his contention that we shouldn't even be
concerned about certain types of censorship by private companies, but I agree that pushing for government regulation of said censorship is not a good idea and will ultimately backfire. This forum can and does censor people. A thread that in no way violated forum rules has been "disappeared" today. (And no I didn't start the thread and I disagreed with the premise of the thread, so I'm not saying this on my behalf). But I don't think RPF should be able to be sued into oblivion just because someone might post something defamatory about Joe Biden or Kamala Harris or some other random person.
As for Trump and the bumpfire stock ban, I don't think that's why he lost. I bring that up because
I don't like it and I know a lot of people
here don't like it. But I don't think that turned the tide. Trump lost Arizona, IMO, over the feud with John McCain. He lost Michigan, again IMO, over his feud with Justin Amash. Amash, who's parents immigrated from Lebanon, has never liked Trump's immigration rhetoric. In that he is like former GOP congresswoman Mia Love who openly feuded with Trump over his "shythole countries" comment (she is of Haitian descent) and as a result of that feud her red seat flipped blue. In short, Trump's penchant for making enemies that didn't need to be made came back to bite him in some close races. Again, my opinion.
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