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Re:India invokes emergency laws to ban BBC Modi documentary by mise_en_place on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @07:21PM (#34512589)
Interestingly, pornography is banned there as well. It would seem that in order to have truly free speech, a culture must tolerate some form of degeneracy. As we do in the United States.
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Re:India invokes emergency laws to ban BBC Modi documentary by capableweb on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @08:05PM (#34512955)
What value is free speech when you can get gunned down in the school while TV is not allowed to show nudity at all?
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Re:India invokes emergency laws to ban BBC Modi documentary by schiffern on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @08:08PM (#34512974)
Classic whataboutism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes

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Re:India invokes emergency laws to ban BBC Modi documentary by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @08:09PM (#34512985)
> what value is free speech when you can get gunned down in the school

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”

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