Autocorrect got me ... Damn.

Anyway. What is not a birthright? Speech? You're not really making any sense.

We're all born with the ability to think and form speech, we should use it. It's not a western or eastern specific thing. It's universal. I don't understand why people push a narrative for propaganda and act as if Europe is in shambles for not being able to speak freely but getting poisoned in Russia for speaking freely is a non factor (as an example).

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I am trying to say that freedom of speech is part of the Western tradition. For example, it is codified in the US constitution. It is not a traditional part of other civilizations.

I would very much like everyone to have freedom of speech, but it seems especially tragic for the West to fall into totalitarianism when we have a tradition of free thought, property, etc.

A very very very very long time ago, censorship wasn't even invented yet.