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Thanks. :) This makes me worried as well. Even though I know this, I always tend to, at the moment, forget the limitations some countries have. China, Russia,
by claes-magnus 6y ago
Thanks. :)
This makes me worried as well. Even though I know this, I always tend to, at the moment, forget the limitations some countries have. China, Russia, Iran, and others.
There such tendencies, or views only (so far), in Europe where I live, that seems to think this is a good thing. Not as extreme perhaps. But like: in relation to values x, y, z the content and values a, b, c are bad and because they are bad they should be removed. And no, not speaking about things like child pornography.
The difference between liberal values in general and others is that liberal stance (interpreted very broadly) allows criticism of the liberal stance, while we know from history that totalitarian states and ideologies such as communism, fascism, and so on solve things with bans and by burning books.
I know what kind of world I want my children to get older in...
I'd rather have them interested in communism at 15 and radical. That they have the possibility to browse the Web for texts on communism than an authoritarian control saying communism (or some other ideology) is wrong and removing such sites. And the Web is best aligned with a liberal stance. I write more about my view here: https://herebeseaswines.net/essays/2020-04-28-the-web-is-amazing https://herebeseaswines.net/essays/2020-04-28-the-web-is-ama.... But I want to add - even though I've been active in the Swedish liberal movement for a while - that market economy when too far also threatens the Web.