The censors are losing patience. They have gone from regretting the existence of free speech and gaming the system as best they can to fantasizing about ending it through criminal penalties.

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  1. SS:

    The censors are losing patience. They have gone from regretting the existence of free speech and gaming the system as best they can to fantasizing about ending it through criminal penalties.

    You can observe this change in temperament – from frustration to fury to calling for violent solutions – over the last several weeks. And it serves as a reminder: censorship was never the end point. It was always about controlling society’s “cognitive infrastructure,” which is how we think. And to what end? A secure monopoly on political power.

  2. throwdownHippy on

    Oh, you must be talking about what Bill Gates referred to as, “The notion of free speech.” Yeah, we haven’t had that for a long time. In Soviet Amerika, freedom of speech is not big issue, freedom after speech is big issue.

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