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There Are No Girls on the Internet

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Elon Musk's Free Speech Utopie

Elon Musk has a real problem with that right like he spent $44 billion to buy Twitter so that he could be the guy who gets to decide what discourse is allowed and what discourse isn't hidden behind his veneer of being a free speech champion. And now he's got a step further to think that because he owns Twitter he cannot only decide which speech is allowed in which speech isn't but he can like invent new meanings for words. He explicitly said when he bought Twitter he was using it as a platform to try to police and restrict the language of trans people and people that support them. It's I think part of a larger attempt to erase and eradicate transness and fearness

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