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Re:Maybe we shouldn't want a fully decentralized web by dash2 on Saturday December 05, 2020 @06:05AM (#25313585)
> Understand that the Internet has absolutely nothing to do with the 'truth'. The truth comes from examination, and the legitimacy of the examiners, purveyors of information. If that legitimacy does not exist, then the truth is just whatever everyone wants it to be.

Ironically this sounds just like the kind of argument Thomas More would have made against Erasmus. And he’d have referred to Münster just as you refer to Rwanda.

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Re:Maybe we shouldn't want a fully decentralized web by jariel on Saturday December 05, 2020 @09:26AM (#25314753)
Anyone can have their printing press. But if they want to start printing pamphlets that say 'Kill All the Celts/Jews/Lutherans/Catholics' then it's going to get taken away.
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Re:Maybe we shouldn't want a fully decentralized web by dash2 on Saturday December 05, 2020 @11:02AM (#25315487)
Again that's very similar to arguments made in the 16th century. "Take away the magistrate, and let loose the bridle unto the unruly multitude... virgins shall be deflowered, matrons ravished, old men slain in their beds...." Despite all this, it's hard to be sad that freedom of speech eventually won out in Northern Europe.
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Re:Maybe we shouldn't want a fully decentralized web by jariel on Saturday December 05, 2020 @06:39PM (#25319496)
No - 'Freedom of Speech' did not 'win out' in Northern Europe as you are making the comparison to today.

If you used your 'free press' to attack a local Prince, he would have you killed, so what are you even talking about?

'Banning all books' is something different than 'banning people trying to overthrow the government'.

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