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by jazzyk 3069 days ago
>"freedom on paper" is a load of BS

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”

- Noam Chomsky

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Right, we don't have absolute freedom in an absolutist sense. You're technically correct, the best kind, but I wasn't suggesting we had it either.
Says Noam Chomsky, who in China, Russia or the Arab world would have disappeared.