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by okc 3682 days ago
Why not?

So you really want me to explain why people should have free speech, at this level of debate, it is unbelievable you could ask - why not?

Let me give you the big why not: because your opinion right now is free speech on a forum of free speech.

Please don't back pedal and say your just talking about dangerous hate inducing free speech. Because we both know that isn't the case. The context is a government which has always tortured dissenters. A government which drove tanks over peaceful protesters.

A government based on the notion of rebellion not reform, which is doing everything humanly possible to stop rebellion ever happening again. That's the communist paradox. That's the ultimate source of propaganda.