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I just search for "fake face masks" on google and they came right up

https://www.google.com/search?q=fake+face+mask&tbm=isch

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That’s image search. Try searching for this company: https://fakemaskworldwide.com/all-products/

There’s others like it that are also censored. First result for “Fake face masks” on DuckDuckGo.

They sell a product that potentially puts people in real danger. Choosing not to wear a mask is fine. An immunocompromised person can choose to cross the street when they see you. This product, allowing you to pretend to wear a mask in order to get close to people that don't want to be near maskless people is evil. And a "Rittenhouse Walks" t-shirt?

I'm glad they've been de-platformed. Good riddance!

This is a great example of censorship aligning with your biases. Today. A central theme to the discussion here is that, tomorrow, this censorship will likely not align with your biases. How will you feel about it then?

We have millennia of practical examples of the fact that ceding the power to speak will always hurt us all in the end. It will eventually be used to silence you and whatever you believe is moral and just. This is why we must be willing to accept speech we don't like. Especially speech we don't like, because that's the speech which is removed first.

I hate to break it to you, but that was decided a long time ago, and we all agree to live by the biases of the majority.

You don't want child porn on television at 7pm, do you?

Using "immunocompromised people" as the excuse for every abuse of rights and ethics is the same as the right wing using "think of the children" or "the terrorists will get us".

A mask is not a human rights abuse.

You know the difference between "the terrorists will get us" and "wear a mask to help protect others"? Only the second one is based in fact. Just because you refuse to believe such doesn't change this.

Are you intentionally misunderstanding? We are talking about censorship, not the policy around masks.

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