Louisiana Republican demands social media companies delete anti-Charlie Kirk posts & ban users

a year ago by Tony Bark to c/politics

GOP lawmakers, who previously railed against online censorship, are suddenly singing a different tune.
RunningInRVA 113 points a year ago

So they don’t support free speech? I thought that’s why this guy was a martyr somehow.

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Archangel1313 33 points a year ago

Yeah...these people really don't understand irony, at all.

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WhatAmLemmy 25 points a year ago

Fascists don't believe in the meaning of words.

They are free to play in bad faith, while libs waste time and energy debating their bad faith arguments; exactly what the bad faith actor wanted.

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sp3ctr4l 12 points a year ago

Exactly.

Words are nothing but weapons to them, tactics to distract, demoralize, dogwhistle, whatever.

You do not speak to a fascist with words.

You speak to them with a fucking baseball bat.

... not like they would ever do any good with a working jaw anyway.

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CharlesDarwin 4 points a year ago

It's only about Nazi free speech. They'll pretend we all need to allow their free speech, no matter how hateful, because, "free speech".

But they don't have any intent of YOU having free speech.

That's the paradox of tolerance that Popper talked about....

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Assassassin 55 points a year ago

Didn't republicans make truth social and the other rightwing shitholes specifically because "tHeY'rE cEnSoRiNg Us" for saying shit more vile than what they're throwing a fit about now?

It's almost like they want censorship for everyone but themselves.

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aramis87 17 points a year ago

They want their speech out of their hate-infested echo chambers so that they can start infecting more of the populace.

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CharlesDarwin 3 points a year ago

They would love it if everyone was forced to be exposed to their spew. They think people being to ignore/block/unaffiliate with them is "censorship".

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CharlesDarwin 4 points a year ago

The Nazi playbook.

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CaptainBlinky 3 points a year ago

It’s almost like they want censorship for everyone but themselves.

Almost like? No, that's the actual point.

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Canconda 51 points a year ago

The Snowflake Bill

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don 46 points a year ago

For a state as homophobic as Louisiana, they sure do love gobbling them some old man dementia cock

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Reygle 12 points a year ago

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CaptainBlinky 3 points a year ago

And dead man cock if he's any indication.

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RaoulDuke 1 point a year ago

I bet every MAGAt has a small peepee.

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homesweethomeMrL 23 points a year ago

I demand Louisiania republiQans shut the fuck up

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devolution 20 points a year ago

Fat bald old white man. Checks out.

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aubeynarf 11 points a year ago
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devolution 13 points a year ago

Correction: fat old bald conservative white man. Checks out.

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FreshParsnip 17 points a year ago

And I demand Trump be arrested

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mrgoosmoos 16 points a year ago

party of free speech

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CharlesDarwin 12 points a year ago

Wait, I thought this party was about trying to legalize comedy again. Because no one was allowed to laugh prior to Taco being back in office.

What happened?

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CaptainBlinky 9 points a year ago

Higgins, who chairs the House Oversight Committee’s subcommittee on federal law enforcement, argued restrictions are not censorship but a defense of constitutional order. “The reasonable restriction of public statements that lie far beyond the standards of our own society is not an oppression of free speech. It is, rather, the protection of free speech,” he claimed.

Insert 1984 slogan here.

*edit: glad he's dead.

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BigMacHole 8 points a year ago

FREEDOM! SMALL GOVERNMENT! ANTI CANCEL CULTURE! NOT SNOWFLAKES!

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Treczoks 7 points a year ago

Any anti-Charlie Kirk post is a pro-humanity post.

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CharlesDarwin 7 points a year ago

If these people aren't the most butthurt snowflakes ever over this podcaster, they sure are pretending to be.

JFC.

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SuiXi3D 6 points a year ago

And I demand that Louisiana Republicans get deleted, but we don't all get what we want, do we?

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Voroxpete 5 points a year ago

How very free speech of them.

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QuantumTickle 5 points a year ago

Sounds very anti free speech

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maplebar 5 points a year ago

Try that shit on the fediverse, chump.

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xxce2AAb 5 points a year ago

"I had the Constitution printed on custom toilet paper. Never has wiping felt so good!"

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fedupwithbureaucracy 4 points a year ago

He know he physically beats his children

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ramenshaman 3 points a year ago

❄

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ShittyBeatlesFCPres 3 points a year ago

He can come to New Orleans if he wants to find out. All this bluster and can’t even take a street car 7 blocks or whatever.

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putitoutwithyourbootsted 3 points a year ago

so much free speech!

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Blackfeathr 1 point a year ago

Reddit is already way ahead of him.

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bacon_pdp -8 points a year ago
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deadtom 18 points a year ago

If Republicans didn't have double standards, they would have no standards at all. They would just selectively enforce and wear the hypocrisy as a badge like fascists do. It'd just be a way to flex their power while giving them a new way to attack and harass.

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