Jeff JarvisDec 21, 2022

Look how the right is positioning this: 'How dare you hate our hate speech?'

National Review: Democratic Lawmakers Urge Facebook to Ramp Up Political-Speech Suppression https://www.nationalreview.com/news/democratic-lawmakers-urge-facebook-to-ramp-up-political-speech-suppression/

Democratic Lawmakers Urge Facebook to Ramp Up Political-Speech Suppression

The warning comes as Elon Musk overhauls Twitter’s content-moderation policies.

National Review
Show threadLinking Dot
@jeffjarvis Once again a successful relabeling. Hate speech is now political speech. Just like anti-abortion became prolife, and religious bigotry became freedom of religion.
Dec 21, 2022 at 1:23pmWeb
Show threadJackie WolfDec 21, 2022
@linkingdot @jeffjarvis My favorite re-naming happened in the late 80s: sewage sludge became biosolids. And isn't that the sort of thing that happened in the 2016 election with Trump when the low-life con man became president?