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Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by closeparen on Thursday October 15, 2020 @05:15PM (#24794077)
This sounds nice in abstract. Let's walk it two steps towards the concrete:

1) Our elected officials suppressing the voices they believe are most dangerous to our society.

2) Donald Trump shutting down The New York Times.

This seems like a move that would jumpstart the entropy snowball, not slow it down.

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Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by Cookingboy on Thursday October 15, 2020 @05:20PM (#24794161)
As far as entropy goes, if we actually have a "supreme leader" then it would actually drastically lower entropy. It would be a shitty society to live in unless we are talking about a benevolent AI or something, but entropy would indeed be low.

Btw my original comment wasn't about the danger of free speech, it's about the danger of absolutely unchecked free speech from all aspects of society.

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