Silencing the masses
In a free country, people have to be free to do and say things that others don’t like. What is popular and considered normal and acceptable rarely needs protection, but what is unpopular does.
What’s been troubling for a while is just how often the government asks (read: pressured) private entities to engage in the practice of censoring people’s speech because they don’t like what is being said.
Sure, they couched it in terms like “misinformation” and such, but if you have to silence misinformation rather than counter it, it’s probably not misinformation. However, a recent report makes the whole situation seem even worse, and I didn’t think that was possible.
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