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Re:The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire by 8note on Friday December 11, 2020 @08:41PM (#25394397)
But that's not democracy.

Go is arguing that free speech is required for democracy, and that democracy is why we want free speech.

The founders didn't like democracy all that much though

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Re:The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire by gnusty_gnurc on Friday December 11, 2020 @08:53PM (#25394497)
> and that democracy is why we want free speech

We don't "want free speech," it exists and a government that represents free people will recognize that.

The founders arrived at a consensus with representative democracy. They realized the dangers of democracy.

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Re:The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire by 8note on Sunday December 20, 2020 @08:54PM (#25491385)
It's just a made up concept though. It would be physically impossible for YouTube to ban anything if it was a real thing.

That there's a conversation about YouTube censoring people says that it is perfectly possible for free speech to not exist. It's not a physical law of the universe

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