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They're comin' for yer guns!
How many fucking times have we heard this nonsense from the far right? To change the 2nd amendment, you'd need another constitutional amendment - which would have to be ratified by 3/4 of the states. You'd be lucky to get one. Even in the most liberal states people only want background checks, red flag laws, stuff like that. So this is just alarmist screaming and shouting designed to get the sheeple all hot and bothered.
The first amendment only applies to government censorship. Private platforms can make their own decisions about what content they want to host. To pick an old school example, newspapers can decide to publish your letter to the editor, or not. They're not required to do it (even if they could publish them all). Having a conversation on social media is no different from having it in a restaurant, or other public venue. If you're talking about killing someone or trying to overthrow the government, and you're overheard, you may end up under surveillance. That's hardly fascism. It's how law enforcement is done.
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Were you not listening? The private sector has always been free to decide their own TOS. After the Capitol attack, social media platforms are rethinking the role they played and what their policies should be going forward.
If you spread tin foil hat conspiracy theories - deep states, made up election fraud, Satanic pedophiles, covid being deliberately spread by the Democrats, etc. - then yes, people will call you a crazy conspiracy theorist because that's what you are. Peaceful protest does not include storming buildings, or killing people and threatening to kill others. If those idiots had stayed outside and confined themselves to making their voices heard there wouldn't have been a problem. So please spare us the massive right wing sense of victimhood and persecution.
A handful of people behave violently over the summer and every single BLM protestor or Antifa supporter is a thug and a terrorist. Right? But when white nationalists and QAnon nuts try to stage a coup it's all good. We shouldn't tar everyone on the right with the same brush. Pure hypocrisy. Whatever standard you apply, at least be consistent about it!