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beebmam ◴[16 Dec 17 03:41 UTC] No.15937380[source]▶

Censoring the CDC, of all organizations. What a travesty. The entire world looks to the US CDC for guidelines.

Let's be clear: The political right in the US pretends to care about free speech until they get serious political power.

It wasn't too long ago that conservatives were strongly against the depiction of violence and sex in video games.

mulmen[dead post] ◴[16 Dec 17 03:59 UTC] No.15937508[source]▶

I don't get the impression that the political right in the United States even pretends to be concerned with free speech.

1. menacingly ◴[16 Dec 17 04:55 UTC] No.15937793[source]▶

Neither end of the political spectrum is interested in free speech right now, they just use different justifications to ban the undesirable thought.

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2. mulmen ◴[16 Dec 17 12:19 UTC] No.15939225[source]▶

So what? The GP said the right pretends to care, I say they don't even do that. Other views on the political spectrum have nothing to do with this.

CDC gets list of forbidden words