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Re:Facebook Faces a New World as Officials Rein in a Wild Web by scrumper on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @03:23PM (#15287980)
And, to complete the thought, the behavior of those corporate centralizers has rendered it politically acceptable for the government to do so.
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Re:Facebook Faces a New World as Officials Rein in a Wild Web by vkou on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @04:23PM (#15288452)
Censoring speech has been politically acceptable for every single Western government, besides the US^, since at least WWII.

It has not yet brought about the collapse of civilization, or a descent into despotism.

^ It has also taken place in the US, but to a different extent.

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Re:Facebook Faces a New World as Officials Rein in a Wild Web by hnaccy on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @09:20PM (#15290042)
>It has not yet brought about the collapse of civilization, or a descent into despotism.

That's quite a short time scale.

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