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Which are the two dictatorships you are thinking about? Your proposed rule might be unpractical, since it would disallow the U.S. government from from saying a
by mmmmmbop 4y ago
Which are the two dictatorships you are thinking about?
Your proposed rule might be unpractical, since it would disallow the U.S. government from from saying anything about free speech for at least 30 more years (see [1] and [2]).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A...
- School-Cotton 4y agoThey presumably meant the Nazi period (1933-1945) and the period of SED rule in East Germany (1949-1990).
- robonerd 4y agoIt's a sliver over a hundred years ago now, but Germany was also under a military dictatorship lead by Hindenburg and Ludendorff from 1916 through 1918.
- hef19898 4y agoFree speech was all but dead between 1914 and 1918 everywhere. Not saying Luddendorff wasn't defacto military dictator, he was, just pointing out that this had no additional negative impact on free speech during this time.
- esyir 4y agoAs far as I can tell, those didn't look like the USA applying martial law to large swathes of its populace.
- mmmmmbop 4y agoThat's true, but also not the criteria the original poster proposed.
- raxxorraxor 4y agoI was talking about the Nazi and the GDR regime. I am aware that US foreign policy is controversial, but never did the US murder people on a comparable scale.