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Why? This is a real question. This is not a thing that has existed in the past; why is it necessary that it exist now? If you look back to the founding of the
by kyralis 7y ago
Why?
This is a real question. This is not a thing that has existed in the past; why is it necessary that it exist now? If you look back to the founding of the US, political discourse was done frequently through pamphlets. The government didn't provide some "uncensored" pamphlet distribution service, and I find it unlikely that print shops of the time did not occasional reject orders that they didn't like.
- afthonos 7y agoIronically, the one time I know of a government guaranteeing freedom of expression, down to the right to be provided with printing presses if needed was … the Soviet constitution. (Source: a memory of a comparative politics lecture in college, where the professor used it as an example of what’s written and what’s implemented being sometimes a little different...)
- daenz 7y agoNotice I said "space" and not "website." A pamphlet is to public physical space as a website is to online virtual space.