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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by jwond on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @03:43PM (#28698875)
So we need to apply heavy-handed censorship to silence dissent so that we don’t turn into an authoritarian country like China or Russia where they use heavy-handed censorship to silence dissent.
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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by TimTheTinker on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @07:26PM (#28701321)
Exactly. You don't uphold democracy by silencing its critics, either.

Democracy and liberal freedom is best upheld when (a) the government is founded on the principles of liberty and rule-of-law, and (b) the people treasure those principles and refuse to tolerate a government that fails to uphold them.

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