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Does it worry anyone that more and more people are okay with having an institution suppress an opposing view? Governments wanting to suppress opposing views is
by gamechangr 8y ago
Does it worry anyone that more and more people are okay with having an institution suppress an opposing view?
Governments wanting to suppress opposing views is normal. Citizens asking for others to be silenced is now becoming the new norm.
Who gets to decide?
- thaumasiotes 8y agoCitizens asking for others to be silenced certainly isn't new. The demand for blasphemy laws is generally bottom-up, not top-down. (Though there is a top-down equivalent, sedition or lèse-majesté laws.)
- krapp 8y agoIn a democracy, governments wanting to suppress opposing views is the result of citizens asking for others to be silenced and voting in the means to silence them. What you're worried about is the second edge of the double edged sword that is free speech - the right to express a view on the one side, and the right to oppose that view on the other.