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If you believe the post-WW2 USA was a free speech paradise with no political persecution, you have some reading to do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavender_scare


The USA threw 100k+ of its own citizens in concentration camps, stripping them of property and leaving them in poverty after the war. Not exactly a shining moment for principles.


Can you show me examples of widespread censorship due to misgendering?


Literally all major platform websites--Youtube, Tiktok, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc.--ban all posts which contain misgendering and deadnaming as part of their broader "hate speech" policies.

Agree or not, this is "censorship", and it is "widespread".

It is hard to show examples of censored content because it is, you know, censored. But you can try some posts for yourself on these platforms and see how it goes.

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/hateful-condu... https://decisionmagazine.com/facebook-says-misgendering-cons... https://www.npr.org/2022/02/09/1079643611/tiktok-bans-deadna...


I disagree, in my opinion censorship is when an authority, like the government, punishes speech.

If I uses the nword on twitter and get banned would that be censorship? It's listed with deadnaming in the TOS


So, you don't consider multi-trillion dollar valued companies, whose annual revenues are greater than the GDP of the majority of countries in the world, and who have sole control over platforms used by over 1/3 the world's entire population, to be "authorities" capable of censorship.

OK, well, good luck then.


No, because you can use another product. The government can fine or send you to jail.


Literally all major products currently have similar censorship rules, no matter which one you choose.

Re: countries, "you can move to another country."

The cognitive dissonance is strong with this one.


Reddit is a good example.


Reddit is a website


You seem to forget that this AI doesn't really give a crap about your arbitrary borders, a document or an amendment to that document. You also seem forget that even if it did, most people don't live in the same country under the same jurisdiction, so even if everything you think and feel turns out to be true, it still doesn't help the conversation at all.

On top of that, you also seem to be trying to mix-and-match rules for institutions and rules for private entities as you see fit which is also not how any of this works.


How has the first amendment been compromised?


There is specific provision in German law precisely because of the concentration camps: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/germanys-laws-ant...




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