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lostnfound

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4. Hazardous to democracy, gagging real people with real experiences while bots spew lies everywhere

Reply to ruet (Reply #1)

Fri May 26, 2023, 07:13 AM

May 2023

I’m disgusted with “prohibited from speaking”. Hazardous to democracy
We need to hear from real people about their real experiences.

Doctors and nurses too, gagged.

Meanwhile bots spew their lies thickly, paid or funded by nefarious agents, but the courts are leaning toward having no restrictions on that.

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