• Mac@mander.xyz
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    9 months ago

    Someone wrote about this recently but i can’t find it. May have been a NYT article.

    “When only the ultra wealthy can afford to speak freely
    what does free speech mean?”

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      9 months ago

      I wpuld assume that goes back to greece or earlier. Bummer how we haven’t found an interim solution.

    • OpenStars@startrek.website
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      9 months ago

      It means that only “people” get to speak freely.

      Caveat: if you ain’t rich, then you ain’t people. (literary callback to a phrase that Biden said during his last campaign)

      Oh, and “speech” = $$$ btw (Citizens United).

      Translation: facts be damned, rich people gonna do whatever they want, and the laws will even codify that, despite how that means the literal and precise opposite of what America was first founded upon.