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It's not a strawman. Look around you: every prestige media outfit is leaning towards authoritarianism. You might think that these ideas are just coming from a f
by quotemstr 5y ago
It's not a strawman. Look around you: every prestige media outfit is leaning towards authoritarianism. You might think that these ideas are just coming from a few wackos with weird ideas, but by the time an idea gets to NPR, it's well within the Overton window of proposals that the decision-makers in our society consider reasonable. And terrifyingly, outright totalitarianism is now on the table in the west.
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/20/925755387/unfettered-free-speech-is-a-threat-to-democracy-journalist-says https://www.npr.org/2020/10/20/925755387/unfettered-free-spe...
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/npr-trashes-free-speech-a-brief-response https://taibbi.substack.com/p/npr-trashes-free-speech-a-brie...
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/what-covid-revealed-about-internet/610549/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/what-covid...