Calling himself a “free speech absolutist”, Musk granted an amnesty to hundreds of accounts that had been kicked off the platform. Within hours, those belonging to right-wing Britain First leader Paul Golding, along with former deputy Jayda Fransen and the party itself, reappeared. “We’re absolutely pleased,” Golding says. “Now that we’re back on Twitter, our following is growing very, very rapidly.

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      Those are the names of the people mentioned in the OP. Did you not even read it? Lmao

      But okay. If you are the type of person to defend people that bang on Muslim owned restaurant windows shouting “Pedophiles! Foreigners!” like these two have been arrested for just because they are on your “team”, well, who am I to convince you that’s a bad look?

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        Those are the names of the people mentioned in the OP. Did you not even read it?

        I guess this is how the far right (and far left) is recruiting its infantry - people like @Blamemeta who don’t know the people mentioned, obviously didn’t even read the article, but they have an ‘opinion’ and are accusing others of being in an echo chamber. They are just propaganda parrots very much the same as the so-called ‘tankies’ here on Lemmy.

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          Who better to have on your team than people that blindly defend you regardless of how vile your behavior is just because they hate the same people.