Josh, I genuinely admire your willingness to stand on principle.
One of America’s greatest inventions is freedom of expression. I’ve felt deeply disillusioned over the past handful of years, as the free speech party, organizations, and individuals turned out to be craven pieces of shit who only pretended to embrace speech protections while they were out of power.
Not to sound like a doomer, but this is about more than your right to make fun of Internet personalities. If the system can get us to accept speech controls on the level of not pointing out the male sex pest in a dress, we will accept whatever comes next.
What comes next will be debanking for wrongthink. Canceling your health insurance because you tweeted criticism of the party. Complete destruction of the ability of the working classes to communicate and organize. Shutting off the internet if people are protesting the wrong thing. What comes next is tyranny.
I know that sounds like retarded doomerism, and it’s true, I am a retard, and I am also a doomer. But I’m a retard-doomer who reads, and this seems like very serious shit to me. Think of how things are on Reddit, the soy infused groupthink. Most of us aren’t brave enough to choose being unpersoned over lying that the emperor’s new clothes look great. Most of us are wired to look around and see what the other monkeys are doing and try to line up alongside them. If the system can make you think you’re alone, many of us will simply shut up.
Imo that is the true value of free speech, of places like this, and it’s why they’re desperate to take it away. They want you afraid and alone, unable to see a single other retard who agrees with your dissent. I would genuinely rather be wrong and wearing a stylish tinfoil hat, but that’s how I see it.
This Glenn Greenwald piece is long, but important reading if you want to continue to be able to read about idiots, shitpost, and criticize the elite powers:
The Consortium Imposing the Growing Censorship Regime. (Also casually mentions the Farms.)
Hail Moon, may the spirit of victory guide him.