Is anyone else extremely tired of how hypocritical most of this website’s userbase tends to be in regards to libertarian issues?

Recently I came upon this article being shared on another subreddit. I personally am not the biggest fan of Elon Musk and I definitely think the story goes against how he markets himself as a free speech absolutist. However, this is not about him but rather the user that I saw posting the article. Said user (who should know who they are if they ever get around to reading this) has had me banned from the subreddit I saw them post it on for months on end now using the exact same pretext that Elon used to ask for the removal of posts (“they are against the Reddit rules”). I’m not going to pretend that it’s easy to be perfect in regards to free speech (I did just report an account on Facebook for impersonating me) but it’s frankly amazing just how unself-aware a lot of users on this website seem to be in regards to that issue and many others of a similar nature. They don’t care about something like free speech unless it’s for those who they view as being in the ingroup, when it comes to those who they view as being in the outgroup suddenly they are chomping at the bit in regards to asking for censorship. It’s why the front page of Reddit thinks that Donald Trump and his administration is the worst thing ever yet they were completely fine with any and all authoritarian actions done by Biden and his administration.

Thoughts?

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