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0 pointspfdietz2y ago0 comments

Every time I read about that I have a renewed love for the US Constitution's 1st amendment.

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paulmd2y ago· 1 in thread

In the long run, less-free societies using free speech as a Trojan horse to disrupt our social cohesion will probably be the end of the US.

It’s not like anyone can feasibly invade or anything, and we’re the world reserve currency so it’s not going to be financial collapse. Meanwhile you see Russia and china very successfully exploiting the infowars/foundations-of-geopolitics tactics etc.

Untrammeled free speech is quite likely to literally be the thing that kills the US.

Intralexical2y ago

Meh. Ten years ago it was going to be the opposite. Unrestricted speech on the Internet was going to be thing took down every autocracy in the world. And for a while, it seemed to be working.

You can't blindly extrapolate in a system made of agents that adapt to what happens around them. It's not like this is the first time the US has been in turmoil.

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