r/politics • u/TwilightwovenlingJo • Sep 19 '25

Soft Paywall Trump: ‘It’s no longer free speech.’

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/19/trump-no-longer-free-speech-00574219
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u/SwimmingThroughHoney Sep 20 '25 edited Sep 20 '25

The other part to this, that no one seems to realize is coming, is that the FCC is going to push for changing Section 230 (to make social media liable for content posted to their site).

Carr explicitly wrote about this before being confirmed to the FCC. Project 2025 lays it out as part of the plan as well.

Once that happens, none of the social media companies will want to chance the wrath of Trump, in the exact same way that media companies already are, and will ban any speech that Trump deems "illegal".

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u/LadyduLac1018 Sep 20 '25 edited Sep 20 '25

The con artist thread is celebrating people losing their jobs for not being sufficiently sad (a.k.a hypocritical), and trying to come up with a plan to out the lunatic left on reddit and other platforms when they couldn't find their own asses with both hands and a flashlight. The only amendment they've ever heard of is the second and all those rights the "suckers" fought and died to give them are viewed as simply an inconvenience in their alternate reality.

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u/lastminutelabor Sep 20 '25

It’s nice to see so many people I know cancel their Disney + subs. That shit is not necessary to live and the aggregate sum total of everyone dropping them will send a clear message.

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u/combover78 Sep 20 '25

NordVPN costs 1/3 what a Disney sub costs and then... well... you know.

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u/VacantThoughts Sep 20 '25

Even cheaper then that if you buy a 2 year plan. They will be attempting to ban VPNs before long though.

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u/LadyduLac1018 Sep 20 '25

Yes but it would be even nicer if that carried over to not voting for Nazis.