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Yes, you are right. It's not legally banned, it's just being gradually made inaccessible to Western audiences. Whatever happened to the marketplace of ideas, pl
by the_af 5y ago
Yes, you are right. It's not legally banned, it's just being gradually made inaccessible to Western audiences. Whatever happened to the marketplace of ideas, plurality of voices, and other liberal ideas?
- woodruffw 5y ago> Whatever happened to the marketplace of ideas, plurality of voices, and other liberal ideas? Nothing happened to it. You're perfectly within your rights to go stand in a public marketplace and yell until you're blue in the face about whatever you please. "Free speech" does not and has never meant that any company or individual of your choosing is compelled to amplify what you have to say.
- the_af 5y agoI don't think the analogy fits, since these are voices and outlets that are being effectively made inaccessible to Western audiences. There's the purist view of free speech and then there's the practical one ("is it free speech if none can hear it"?). I'm obviously talking about the most important one: the latter.