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Re:We can have democracy or we can have Facebook by lldbg on Friday December 11, 2020 @06:57AM (#25384758)
So free speech was good, when it was restricted to the elite (those of means and intellect). Now that the unwashed masses, the plebs, have access to it, it's no longer good?
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Re:We can have democracy or we can have Facebook by anovikov on Friday December 11, 2020 @08:57AM (#25385760)
Exactly! And so was the democracy itself (in Washington's times, only 3% of people could vote and it was great, in Andrew Jackson's, 15%, and it was still sort of OK, but anything more was a disaster waiting to happen)
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