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A reminder that free speech only applies to government bodies and social media platforms are under no legal obligation to provide you with a forum for oppressive language including racial slurs.

Seeing a few white people trying to defend their use of the n-word on here by appearing selfless and making it part of engaging in conversation.

Find an instance with more lax with their admin rules. That's not censorship, that's an individual using their right to not give you an amplifier.

@oldhat You've just put into one toot what I had to go back and forth in multiple ones with a couple of people who took issue with the comments I made earlier.

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@madswinther I think I'm getting the hang of this 500 character limit!

@oldhat It's really nice! Hopefully, this'll reduce "1/n" tweetstorms (tootstorms?). The 140 limit had come to feel like a purely historical artifact, anyway.

(I also gave up fairly quickly on the aforementioned discussion, b/c while the tone was polite, it was becoming a bit too sea-lion-y for my tastes)