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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by ta17711771 on Thursday July 02, 2020 @01:11PM (#23715415)
By the government!?
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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by happytoexplain on Thursday July 02, 2020 @01:15PM (#23715488)
By the people, via the government, as all government action is theoretically supposed to be.
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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by kube-system on Thursday July 02, 2020 @01:40PM (#23715836)
Government only remains "by the people" if the people maintain the ability to exercise effective oversight over it. Speech is an effective means of exercising government oversight, which is why marginally increasing government power to suppress it is so contentious.
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