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They were novel because they just came out of fighting for freedom against an oppressive empire who used all those things against them and they wanted to make sure that couldn’t happen again.

Any argument otherwise should be met with harsh skepticism because you could be actively trying to oppress us again or accidentally enable some future people in power to be able to.



    Any argument otherwise should be met with harsh
    skepticism because you could be actively trying to 
    oppress us again or accidentally enable some future
    people in power to be able to
It works both ways.

Russia's social media operations utilized (and is surely still aiming to utilize) our relatively permissive climate of free speech to sow discord within America and deepen our divisions.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/us/politics/takeaways-rus...

So, there you go - there's "people in power" using free speech to weaken/oppress us.




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