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can't they both be problems? "people chatting online" is pretty disingenuous when it's what underlies the spread of misinformation and partisanization in politics, culminating in stuff like trying to overturn the 2020 election and Jan 6th


If your plotting something illegal like a coup, that's already illegal. However, if you want to question the results of an election you should have every right to do so. Look at 2000 and 2016. Both those results were questioned and people weren't censored. What changed?

Our election system is far from perfect. The only way for it to get better is to talk about.




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