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"Just build your own tiktok". "Freedom of speech is not absolute". "Freedom of expression doesn't guarantee giving you a platform". "1st amendment protect you from government, not from companies".

Let me guess: they censored some leftist content, am I right?



> Let me guess: they censored some leftist content, am I right?

It is this video of ICE arresting a prominent news reporter and slamming them into the ground - it isn't clear she is leftist or simply reporting the news:

https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/10/feds-arr...


Is there an uncut video? As controversial as the desire for full understanding is these days, there an incredible amount of context missing from that video:

The video starts with her car being faced diagonal, facing the wrong way in traffic, blocking traffic, with an ICE vehicle clipping her trying to go around. What's the context for that? The article has a single sentence, "Jennifer Welday said she first heard honking and yelling just after 8:30 a.m.". Is that related? Was that her honking and yelling? Was that before or after they hit?

There's a cut in the video, then her on the ground. What happened during that cut?


So I was right, as usual.


Freedom of speech isn't absolute, and it doesn't guarantee you a platform, and the 1st Amendment does only protect you from government, not companies.

I don't see what the point of your comment is. It seems like you're dunking on "the left" for... being factually correct?


My point is that so called "progressives" kept justifying and even celebrating censorship for more than a decade, but screeching and screaming now, when it hit themselves.


No one was justifying or celebrating censorship then, and no one is screeching and screaming now.

It seems you're trying to imply that "progressives" are being hypocritical (although I don't know what specifically is "progressive" in this context), but there is no hypocrisy in recognizing that private platforms have the right to enforce policies while also protesting those policies. That's how free speech actually works.

As opposed to what conservatives were doing not long ago, which is demanding the government forcibly take over social media platforms and make banning them illegal. Talk about screeching and screaming.


What's the point of this post then. Enjoy your own medicine.




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