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Oh please. Those are incredibly narrowly defined. Our republic won’t fall because some drug company can’t lie about a product they are selling.

This is a false equivalency - “telling Pfizer they can’t claim their drug cures AIDS is no different than suppressing the Covid lab leak theory”.

Yeah, it’s massively different.




Wat. I'm not arguing for a specific instance of 'has great effects' for judging good/bad speech.

Just that the government already has the power to judge good/bad speech - and people are not revolting against that.

Why doesn't the government's ability to judge good/bad speech give you the heebie-jeebies, but that specific instance does?


What I said, scope.




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