(04-01-2024, 06:52 PM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote: I think that free speech can be costly. I think it is going to cost so much in the future that most folk will choose to budget their words.
That seems to be the plan - make free speech too expensive to engage in. That's what is called "a chilling effect on free speech". Why bother following constitutional principles when you can just bypass them and go strait for the totalitarian authority they so crave?
Why bother engaging dissenting opinions when you can just shut them down and control the narrative all by yourself, unopposed?
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