Comment by PierceJoy | Hacker News Reader

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> In fact it is making me judge whether I should defect and not vote for Democrats in the next election.

While I don't think your position on free speech is unreasonable, to overlook the harmful things the right is doing and base your vote on Twitter's moderation policies seems like cutting off your nose to spite your face. Off the top of my head:

* Don't say gay bill * Huge restrictions on abortions that have been enacted recently and will undoubtedly be upheld by the SCOTUS. Even in cases of rape and incest. * Gerrymandering, ensuring the right will stay in control even if they are not supported by the electorate. * Restrictions placed on voting that target minorities

I also think phrasing this as crushing political dissent is a gross exaggeration. We're talking about very extreme people being suspended from a social media website. No one is getting arrested. If you want to see examples of people being arrested, look at Texas where a woman was recently arrested for suspicion of having an abortion, or Florida where Desantis had a researcher arrested for releasing COVID data.

You should remove this part: " or Florida where Desantis had a researcher arrested for releasing COVID data. "

She wasn't a researcher, she was an admin for the GIS dashboard.

She was arrested because she misused her access credentials, mass-emailed everyone then took 19,000 personnel files and transferred them to her home computer.

She did the classic thing when she was removed from being in charge of the dashboard (not fired, just reassigned) - she crashed the dashboard while her permissions were still active by creating a new admin account and transferring a boatload of data to it. She refused to make the new admin an admin for 'security reasons' and then told the media she was removed from being in charge of the dashboard because they wanted to lie about the data. THAT is what they fired her for.

Florida didn't have her manually falsify data - there is no evidence that they falsified data at all. She's just nuts.

To be honest the latest additional restrictions on abortions are a consequence of political parties advocating for them in a really bad way in my opinion. The common slogan was bodily autonomy of the mothers. Not only in the pandemic did it become clear how opportunistic that position was aside from the fact that there is also a consideration of the bodily autonomy of the child.

I am in favor of abortion rights. Without them they still happen in a far more gruesome way. But I will not deny that there are some problems that might warrant discussion.

In fact I think it was social media that promoted the worst advertisers for the position for abortion and I think that pushed a lot of people away. The topic quickly becomes emotional and self-righteousness often fails to advertise sensibly.

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