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Re:DoD Awards $1B Contract to Peraton to Counter Misinformation by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @04:40PM (#28147458)
Right speech is only a natural outcome of free speech if you have a very disciplined population. (Disciplined intellectually, morally, perhaps other ways as well.) Without that... not so much.

So, do we have that kind of population? Examine the empirical evidence. Do we?

I'm not in favor of censorship, but your position here doesn't work.

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Re:DoD Awards $1B Contract to Peraton to Counter Misinformation by swayvil on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @05:32PM (#28148073)
Dictating "truth" leads to 3 diseases.

1. People get stressed out.

2. People clutch their favorite bullshit in an unbreakable deathgrip.

3. People dictate their bullshit to everybody within earshot.

OTOH, truth tastes better than bullshit. Clearly. Given the freedom to experiment people will come around eventually.

So let's provide the people that freedom.

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