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- "What you cannot be is a foreign state..." But you missed the point: the illiberalism isn't the restriction on the foreign government's actions, but the rest
by perihelions 3y ago
- "What you cannot be is a foreign state..."
But you missed the point: the illiberalism isn't the restriction on the foreign government's actions, but the restriction placed on your own citizens—the restriction that they are not allowed to read certain things: that certain books, prints, newspapers, are illegal for their eyes. That's anathema to open society.
This isn't about "foreign governments' rights"; it's about peoples' rights.
"To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker."
- bootsmann 3y agoI can look at Russian propaganda today and I will not be tried or sent to jail. I can spread Russian propaganda today and I will not be tried or sent to jail. Again, the ban of RT isn't because they spread certain ideas that were considered wrong by the EU censors. The ban is because they are owned by an adversary state that currently invading an ally on the EU border. > That's anathema to open society. You should maybe read up what the inventor of the very term of the open society had to say about the limits of openness in an open society.