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2025-09-13 Fifth Column

Pavel Durov called Kirk's murder an attack on freedom of speech

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Posted by badanov 2025-09-13 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1763 views ] Top

Posted by Skidmark 2025-09-13 00:06|| 2025-09-13 00:06|| Front Page Top

2 Russia doesn't have freedom of speech. The US First Amendment is considered extremist in every country in the world, especially in Europe where they know what it leads to.
Antisemites like Tucker Carlson, Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi ware allowed to operate openly in the USA spreading hate.
Meanwhile, one of the few good staunchly pro-Israel MAGA types, Charlie Kirk, just got murdered. A huge setback for anti-antisemites in America. He had an entire foundation teaching young Americans in universities who their real friends are in the world.

Posted by Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2025-09-13 00:52|| 2025-09-13 00:52|| Front Page Top

3 Well said, Jairong.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-09-13 02:14|| 2025-09-13 02:14|| Front Page Top

4 The US First Amendment is considered extremist in every country in the world, especially in Europe where they know what it leads to.

With the exception of Holocaust denial (West) Germany had strong free speech protection, in parts stronger than the 1A, for better or worse, up until ca 2014/15.

This was true especially for core political speech.

Since then the respect for free speech rights has been eroding dramatically, in accordance with the general tendency of the nominal West to emulate the likes of China, Russia and the Islamic world.

Free speech is not a luxury. It is the error detection and correction mechanism of Western civilization.

Without free speech we will be led to slaughter, dumb and silent.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2025-09-13 06:32|| 2025-09-13 06:32|| Front Page Top

5 The market for the premise that Russia has free speech is similar to the market for bikini pictures of Hillary Clinton.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-09-13 09:43|| 2025-09-13 09:43|| Front Page Top

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