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 When you got banned from Twitter, it didn't achieve anything. Musk buying it is the only thing that changed it, for better or worse.

Countless people got banned from Facebook and it meant nothing. Just another voice that can no longer be heard.

People will never spontaneously rise up against anything, that is a myth. We change little by little, by discussing and sharing ideas. Eventually small changes lead to big things.

All totalitarian regimes are obsessed with controlling access to information. It's information that is the real danger, they would love nothing more than to have people stand up for what they believe in. It saves them having to find them.