“we are one foot away from 1984.” After a moment, though, he offers a sizable qualifier: “I never actually read the book, so I don’t know all the themes of the book."

What a dumb fuck. If you read you'll see that murrica stepped over it in the mid 70, and now is way beyond. At least for party it was all about power, not about raping children, mass murdering people and burning down villages on the other end of the globe or worshiping satan.

He should be executed for treason.

He's a good guy. He's just pro free speech and pro making money. He doesn't even know or particularly care what QAnon is. He supports all kinds of websites that have dealt with censorship issues. 8kun, 8chan, The Daily Stormer

What is Qanon?

Some boomer cope larp

A 4Chan meme.

Basically it's a psyop made by the bad guys. It goes like this:

1. The world is made mostly of good people.
2. Among those there is small group of very bad child murdering psychopath satan worshipers.
3. Among those very bad people there is a small group of good people, they will fight the psychopaths from within.
4. But only if you do nothing and wait quietly.

It works because half of it is true (1-2), and sheeple intuitively know that, but it's too scary to live in the world with psychopaths and no mummy who will protect from them. https://off-guardian.org/2021/03/12/on-the-psychology-of-the-conspiracy-denier/

“Once you get to the point where you look at whether content is safe or unsafe, as soon as you do that, you’ve opened a can of worms.” At best, his apolitical framing comes across as naive; at worst, as preposterous gaslighting.

So you're telling me that neither of the two authors nor their editor know what gaslighting means? Preposterous.

Lim sees the rising concerns around high-tech censorship as a business opportunity.

How embarrassing for Bloomberg to characterize shocks of supplies of reliable hosting as a he-said quote, instead of the market opportunity itself. It's almost like the authors hate the idea of supply and demand itself.