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That's one of the most remarkable things I've noticed in joining the fediverse (mastodon years ago and lemmy the past couple years).
When people are in charge of their own social media platforms, there's not less censorship. It just serves a different purpose.
In many ways, speech is more restricted on large federated platforms, but it is for the purpose of protecting people. You can't just go around being a racist troll or sex pest. It turns out that people actually like limiting speech when people are not the product. The issue in this article would never happen where people have complete freedom and control of their media.
Yet somehow I think if the subject of the deepfakes were Elon, then the response would be different. ๐ค
Someone might test that and find out.