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It's amazing to me that people don't see the irony that a major tactic of the nazis was quelling free speech. We are so scared of the nazis that we act like th
by anm89 6y ago
It's amazing to me that people don't see the irony that a major tactic of the nazis was quelling free speech.
We are so scared of the nazis that we act like them. This is of course how they framed it too. They would have claimed they needed to protect themselves from the dangerous ideas, literature, art of the Jews.
- beervirus 6y agoIt's like "antifascists" assaulting people because of who they vote for.
- emerged 6y agoWe've been full 1984 for long enough now it feels cliche to even bother pointing it out.
- shadowgovt 6y agoWhen the US government considers banning Holocaust denial, I'll be concerned.
- X6S1x6Okd1st 6y agoThis is not a ban of these ideas at a societal level. You are free to post on your blog as much as you want, you are free to make a newsletter, you are free to speak as much as you want about the holocaust. You just can't use facebook to do so.
- dimator 6y agoThis is a company doing this, not the government. By the way, companies _can_ take the easy road and allow absolutely everything. _Nobody_ wants to use such a service though. Visit reddit clone Voat, and see if you want to revisit it again.