From France to Brazil, more democracies are turning against online speech. I wrote about the threat to platform users:

https://www.platformer.news/p/the-democracies-turning-against-online

The democracies turning against online speech

New laws in Europe and Brazil threaten to knock social platforms offline

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@caseynewton Meanwhile here in the US judges get angy if you even try to give platforms COVID advice as a White House official

The US and EU are on opposite ends of a caltrop on this issue.

@caseynewton Article has hard paywall. Refresh trick does not work. Save your click.

"Democracies" are turning against online speech because online speech keeps revealing "democracy" for the hollow hoax that it is.

For a long time the ruling class saw social media as a harmless way for the peasants to blow off steam.

Now that nobody believes their media any more, and online speech is exposing them worldwide, they want to shut it down.