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Flilix said:
Eagle367 said:

Free speech is most definitely a left wing value. Ask Noam Chomsky or Prof Richard Wolff. I'm a true blue lefty and I'm very much pro free speech.

Oh I know that it is (traditionally), but I feel like that is starting to shift. I don't believe that the intollerance towards free speech on 'the left' is already too problematic, but I do feel like it's gradually getting worse and it could get pretty bad in the future.

Parler getting booted off the internet entirely recently certainly got my attention. You could use the same rationales companies put out behind that collective decision to also justify kicking everything from Twitter to YouTube and Facebook and beyond off the internet too. Parler isn't the kind of place where I'd hang out and it was used to organize a riot where five people died. Facebook has been used, among other things, to help facilitate a full-scale genocide by the government of Myanmar but it wasn't expelled from the internet as a result.