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by TrevorJ 3869 days ago
If the effect is to stifle the speech then functionally how is it different?
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Quite different actually. (Even if two things are both bad it does not mean they are the same thing!) For example you can censor a dead author, but you cannot threaten him. And you can punish someone for saying something without censoring the utterance.