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> a philosophical and political commitment to free speech

Surely this is a meme by now? Any CEO that has ever said this about a website they control is just pandering to the crowd. Musk's Twitter has complied with more government takedown requests than the previous regime had.

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If anyone would say it and mean it, it was probably this guy. He was quite the activist before he committed suicide.

I read his message on thie old markdown web page. this is so sad.

It is now, but it was very different at the time. The old guard of the internet supporting absolute freedom of speech didn’t used to be associated with Nazis. Some good examples that still exists today are the Electronic Frontier Foundation and to some extent the American Civil Liberties Union.

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