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February 28, 2015
Bring On Your Censorship
- First of all, censorship is an admission that the official ideas are weak, and unable to survive scrutiny and opposition.
- Second, it radicalizes moderates.
- Third, it makes the official opinion organs less trustworthy, and less able to get accurate information about public opinion (because the information gathering methods are then impeded).
- Fourth, it adds more risk and more reward to routing around the censorship.
- Fifth, it creates an appearance of hypocrisy among liberals who have argued for untrammeled free speech for centuries.
- Sixth, it creates a black market in samizdata, even for ordinary information.
Posted by gerardvanderleun at February 28, 2015 8:21 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
Please read Dampier's entire article. His punch lines at the end will cheer you.
Something like 'God first makes crazy those he would destroy.'
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at February 28, 2015 5:19 PM
I read the article and I still don't know why anybody would want a zipper implant. To continue the metaphor, we would lose free speech a tooth at a time.
Once Leviathan takes anything away — anything — we don't get it back.
Income Tax was introduced as a temporary measure.
So was borrowing funds from Social Security.
Posted by: chasmatic at March 1, 2015 10:43 AM