Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring out of 'fear'

Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ... by jokethrowaway on Monday March 01, 2021 @08:02PM (#26310645)

(not parent throwaway) Just because nazis used their free speech right to do their propaganda, that doesn't mean free speech caused nazism. In order to do any propaganda (whether that's for a morally good or bad cause), you need to be able to talk to people.

The first thing nazis did was to revoke free speech rights. That's an example of authoritarianism and free speech being opposites.

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Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ... by hannasanarion on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @11:53AM (#26317323)

The parent commenter was claiming that free speech prevents nazism, which any honest look at the history of authoritarianism shows to be categorically untrue.

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Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ... by throwaway894345 on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @10:26AM (#26329543)

I argued no such thing. Allow me to quote myself:

> Indeed, authoritarianism in general and Nazism, Stalinism, Maoism, etc in particular always starts with speech restrictions

Authoritarianism virtually requires restrictions on speech to come into its own.

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