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		someNameIG on Dec 2, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The distinction between free speech as a legal rig... But why should US legal allowances/restrictions be the baseline for the global cultural definition of free speech? And seeing the current discussion of this is focused on Twitter, ~75% of it's users aren't in the US.

kube-system on Dec 2, 2022 [–]

The US is used as a benchmark because its ideas about legal rights are culturally influential and it’s where the headquarters of Twitter is.

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