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Except for the last, those are just lies that people in power find inconvenient. People were saying way more ridiculous things in the summer of 1787, and yet th
by junofan 4y ago
Except for the last, those are just lies that people in power find inconvenient. People were saying way more ridiculous things in the summer of 1787, and yet the country I live in enshrined free speech rights.
- LadyCailin 4y agoThey also enshrined slavery, assuming you mean the US. Who cares what they enshrined? They have no credibility. If the merit of the argument holds no weight, then the fact that “the founding fathers” made it doesn’t make it more (or less) correct.
- vkou 4y ago> Except for the last, those are just lies that people in power find inconvenient. A few of them are plain-old voter suppression, and ~50% of the time, people in power find them incredibly convenient. You don't see them very often, because in most free countries, trying any of them is an incredibly serious offence.
- d110af5ccf 4y agoThat depends entirely on who does it. An individual versus a government official. The overarching point still stands. That people being in favor of censoring "disinformation" (ie speech by private individuals) in certain instances but not others is an inconsistent stance that carries a distinct appearance of partisanship.