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tr_altstoday at 7:17 PM3 repliesview on HN

The right wing went full censorship and surveillance after the Charlie Kirk assassination. It is probably not a coincidence that they targeted Discord first, because the suspect was in a Discord group.

They promised freedom of speech and liberty and this is what we get.


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exceptionetoday at 8:22 PM

  > The right wing went full censorship and surveillance after the Charlie Kirk assassination.
No, earlier. US tech is mostly surveillance tech, with Thiel being sponsor and broker for authoritarian right. The doge operation started around day 1, and was a breach into the government to steal data that was yet out of reach for certain plotters.
hactuallytoday at 7:24 PM

nothing to do with left or right. the UK is left and has the most Orwellian surveillance state outside of China

jcranmertoday at 7:42 PM

The right wing went full censorship and surveillance long before the Charlie Kirk assassination. Anyone who believed that the right wing (or the left wing, for that matter; let's not pretend that censorious dipshittery is not bipartisan) was honestly promising freedom of speech as opposed to merely freedom of speech they like and censorship of speech they don't like was at best willfully blinding themselves to the actual actions of politicians.

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