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Re:Brazil Court votes unanimously to uphold X ban. Users swi... by kaba0 on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @02:57AM (#41432059)
Governments are elected by people, and are the best representatives of what the people want. You rather a foreign agent with questionable motives be the arbiter of truth, rather than the body that is elected more or less democratically?
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Re:Brazil Court votes unanimously to uphold X ban. Users swi... by inglor_cz on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @04:47AM (#41432742)
I don't want governments to be arbiters of truth at all. Elected, unelected, I just don't want them to do this kind of job, much like I don't want a plumber to dictate the contents of my next lunch.

The idea that governments should stick their fingers into anything they want is literally the definition of a totalitarian society.

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Re:Brazil Court votes unanimously to uphold X ban. Users swi... by rbanffy on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @08:24AM (#41434264)
I don’t want Musk to be an arbiter of truth either, and I’m sure we can all agree how much of a terrible idea that’d be.
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