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Patchwork posted...

You do understand that when you put the ability to govern what people say in the hands of the government, youve lost all control of any type of dissent, right?

Just because you agree with the current administrations take on hate speech and civil rights doesnt mean you should willingly give the government more power to erode your freedoms in the future, because they gladly will.

I don't know, it kind of seems better to punish hate speech than to pretend it's harmless and allow it to become a festerous cancer in the body politic that threatens to bring down the entire system. It's probably better than allowing it to escalate into genocidal state policy and violence.

And, of course, such state censorship and state violence have always been leveled against the left and not the right in this country.

Especially when you're talking about a country where the harshest prison is probably a far sight nicer than a minimum security American prison.