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  • If I ever get oppressed for my speech

    You already are.

    Ask yourself: can you say or post absolutely everything that falls under free speech - i.e. not calls to violence of civil disturbance? Do you feel like you can safely talk about all subjects without being cancelled or sued?

    As soon as you start thinking twice about whether you can say something safely, that’s censorship. Censorship isn’t someone breathing over your neck saying “Be careful what you say”, it’s you self-censoring so you don’t get into trouble.










  • I have a very, very old Facebook account I created some 20 years ago, back when Facebook was new. I created it with a throwaway email address. I use it every so often to check Facebook pages of associations or organizations I’m interested in, and it has a totally BS profile complete with fake bio, fake photos of me and my fake family, and ultra boring life events I regularly add to to maintain a plausible fake persona, should someone ask me to justify that I’m a “real” person using an old bona-fide-looking Facebook account.

    When I log in, it never asks me anything at all. I guess old accounts are exempt from Zuckerberg’s corporate surveillance hysteria - or more likely, Facebook forgot to upgrade them.