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Hey free speech absolutists: Given the venue, I’m guessing some of you work with distributed systems, right? What’s happening now is called a “circuit breaker”. When you have an emergency in progress and your system is melting down, you pull the plug and let the fire go out while you figure out what the heck is happening.

We had nearly absolute free speech on the internet and we got a delusional psycho mob organizing to invade the Capitol to avenge nonexistent election-stealing. So we know that doesn’t work. Let’s put the Capitol and the government back together and figure out what does.



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