You are free to believe he’s lying about why he got banned…but given the time it is perfectly reasonable to believe the story that he was banned because he wouldn’t censor legal speech in the US. It was all the rage on most platforms back then. Heck, he’s shown letters from governments demanding he give over info and ban accounts for legal speech in the US and he’s told them to pack sand. Maybe he faked all that too, but it seems believable given the laws those governments have enacted so he gets the benefit of the doubt from me.
Like I said, I don’t care for the guy personally and don’t want to live in a place where he would get to set real world (as opposed to online) policies. But I give him credit for trying to build parallel infrastructure and ecosystems that do serve people who think like him and where you don’t get banned for merely expressing ideas. To me, that matters and the world is better for it. Yes, the social tides have shifted towards sanity in the US recently but they could just as easily swing back the other way.
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2026-07-01 20:56:59 UTC
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