The Ottoman Empire banned printing presses because they were blasphemous and politically destabilizing and they fell dramatically behind the west leading to the

The Ottoman Empire banned printing presses because they were blasphemous and politically destabilizing and they fell dramatically behind the west leading to their eventual total defeat. Free speech enabled by new technologies has good and bad parts, but it's more good than bad. The desire for political stability and maintaining the status quo over everything else is a really lousy way to run things and it's just better to accept that the benefits of free and open communication are better than the risks or a pervasive A.I enabled censorship state like they have in China.