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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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