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0 pointsrndgermandude5y ago0 comments

The ACLU has had a bit of a paradigm shift recently, from "defend any speech" to "defend any speech we do not think is abhorrent". That's not necessarily a bad change, or a good change, depending on where you stand. I am just wanting to point out that the ACLU isn't necessarily "remaining", more "reinventing" these days.

Here is a fresh Glenn Greenwald writeup on it (which is just one opinion, of course):

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-ongoing-death-of-free-s...

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evilsnoopi35y ago

There's a lot of "trust me" in this article that simply isn't backed up by the ACLU's own outline of it's free speech position: https://www.aclu.org/issues/free-speech

It is one thing for an individual in the organization to have a nuanced view of the issue and another thing entirely for the organization to have backed off a maximalist view of the right. I encourage you to read the ACLU's position (which interestingly includes "We’ve called on big social media companies to resist calls for censorship.").

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0 pointsrndgermandude5y ago0 comments

Here is a fresh Glenn Greenwald writeup on it (which is just one opinion, of course):

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-ongoing-death-of-free-s...

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evilsnoopi35y ago

There's a lot of "trust me" in this article that simply isn't backed up by the ACLU's own outline of it's free speech position: https://www.aclu.org/issues/free-speech

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