"Every authoritarian regime in history started by promising to protect people from "dangerous" speech. The power to censor is the power to control. Once speech is restricted, all other freedoms inevitably fall."

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It doesn't start with speech. It ends there. A thousand transgressions start with safety. Speech is where they lock it in.

Speech is where our freedom begins again.

Pardon my pedantic quibble, but my autism was itching.

"Every authoritarian regime in history started by promising to protect people from "dangerous" speech. The power to censor is the power to control. Once speech is restricted, all other freedoms inevitably fall."

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What most scares me is how censorship is spreaded around the world without limits.