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One act of censorship is a thousandfold more pernicious than the entirety of all censored information combined. A bold claim, certainly, but I think it is true in both the short and the long term. To deny another the ability to impart information is to deny every subsequent individual, and indeed the rest of human history, the chance to receive it, learn from it, and make do with it what we will.
This is true of all acts of censorship.
OH MY GOSH! It's you with the same old same old again! Sweeeeet.
This is true of all acts of censorship.
Let's talk about all acts of censorship then. Otherwise your truth obviously aint the whole truth.
originally posted by: PublicOpinion
a reply to: LesMisanthrope
You stiffs wouldn't catch a single drift in my uncensored posts. I'm constantly filtering non-stiff-stuff for the public eye, and I saw you doing so as well a few times. Which typically coincides with the moment you folks pretent "not to understand".
The only difference would be, that you freedom fries (dipped in rinse & repeat sauce) can't afford to be frank about it for some dubious reasons.
It's Syre Censorlock for you, btw.
originally posted by: screamager
the only time freedom of speech comes up nowadays is when a neo-nazi troll gets booted off twitter or whatever for spreading hate speech.
imagine a russian alex jones type trying to question putin's birthplace, religion, sexual orientation or wifes gender and consider how long they would be walking.
or just look at how many journalists get murdered after questioning putin.
in britain and america we have free speech, this website being a good example, look at the lies and hogwash certain posters troll the site with.
you want to believe the clintons are to blame for every death ever recorded and the fact real news reporters don't report nonsense triggers you, thats kinda on you, not some freedom of speech mumbo jumbo.
america's current president has called for arrests of people reporting factual events, but the same people questioning freedom of speech don't, for whatever reason, see a problem with that, a 30 day twitter ban for baiting a religion however...
originally posted by: PublicOpinion
a reply to: LesMisanthrope
I'm offended that a court jester like you dares to censor my full title.
originally posted by: LesMisanthrope
a reply to: theantediluvian
The conflating of child pornography and stolen passwords with free speech is lazy.
originally posted by: LesMisanthrope
Not one human being has come under death, injury or corruption because he happened to hear certain combinations of words and sentences deemed dangerous by some censor or bigot, yet the bodies of censored men and women litter the earth, their works stolen and destroyed because censors fear the opposite.