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Given that the press doesn't have that much freedom in most of the world (even supposedly democratic countries), I think your statement that "everyone already a
by Grishnakh 11y ago
Given that the press doesn't have that much freedom in most of the world (even supposedly democratic countries), I think your statement that "everyone already agrees with" these mantras is plainly false.
- carboncopy 11y agoGiven that the entities suppressing that freedom are powerful minorities, I think the statement still holds. "Everyone" is a colloquialism meaning "most reasonable people" in this case.
- Grishnakh 11y agoYou're making assumptions. You're assuming that your position is "reasonable", and you're assuming that most people (at least in the western world) agree with you. And then to make your logic work, you're assuming that there's a vast conspiracy to oppress most people to prevent them from having freedom of speech and press. The reality is that there aren't a lot of places where there's anything close to an absolute freedom of speech or the press. America really sticks out as an anomaly there, by having it written into the constitution. If it were really a strong part of a nation's culture, you'd think this wouldn't be so unusual, but it is, and in fact other western nations have laws completely contrary to this to some degree. Just look at the UK, where the truth is not an absolute defense against libel.