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My take is that there is a civic, if not legal, obligation to participate in our democracy. The speech in question is working to suppress the mechanism by whic
by pianoben 8y ago
My take is that there is a civic, if not legal, obligation to participate in our democracy. The speech in question is working to suppress the mechanism by which we influence our own society. That it's an effort by a private party, and not the government itself, is immaterial to my point.
I view this and similar efforts as direct attacks on the fabric of our society, aiming to reduce the influence of underrepresented people, to the advantage of the well-represented. In that respect, it's no different from disenfranchisement (or "structural remedies", as you so euphemistically put it).