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Unequivocally. What is the alternative? Banning every single idea besides a pre-approved list of topics? That's Nineteen Eighty Four all over again.

If anything, public discourse enables people to observe and see potential clusters, covid could be traced to tweets talking about pneumonia in November and December of 2019.

If, instead of squashing them, we figured out the underlying problem, which almost always is lack of prospects, we can act accordingly.




Letting private companies enforce their terms of service may not be a perfect alternative, but it is a reasonable one and has been somewhat effective.




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