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By an amazing coincidence over-broad legislation made on top of a legally undefined word ended up used against things and groups which weren't at all the claimed targets of that legislation.
This was also totally unexpected and nobody could ever had foreseen how they could be leveraged for such uses when those laws were first drafted and approved.
Hopscotching backward time and time again into fascism because we laser focused on bad words and not the actual languages of power.
at least it looks like the guy in the video got off the hook by simply swapping a word around so there's that. kind of funny in the context of what you said
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