Truth Social, like all other social media sites, is not a free speech platform. It is an "approved speech" platform. The only difference between Twatter and Truth Social is that the "approved" speech lines up better with the brand of politics Trump followers endorse. If the term "controlled opposition" doesn't immediately pop into you mind upon reading this, then you're not really thinking and simply following you preferred brand of political theater. If we continue to accept the premise that some words are too dangerous to utter or type, then we deserve the tyranny that makes such a premise possible.
No one alive today knows what actual freedom is so it's easy for us to accept that we need to avoid some words, concepts and thoughts in order to have a platform to speak our minds on. This is the true enslavement we are subject to and we are conditioned to champion it. It is working very well.
I agree with you. I intend to use truth social the same way I use Gab, just to lurk and gather info. I never post or comment really on gab, just scroll through once in a while. I'll continue to spend most of my time and attention at poal.
Poal doesn't allow calls to violence to be fair though, it violates the ToS. I've had to delete many such comments, which I hate doing by the way.
ToS - more powerful than laws and rights. It is the blunt instrument with which our freedoms are bludgeoned in this day and age.
If we continue to accept the premise that some words are too dangerous to utter or type, then we deserve the tyranny that makes such a premise possible.
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