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>the actual left has been complaining about centralised capitalist control of the media for decades

Cool. How does the "real" left feel about speech these days?

>The left celebrates this, not because the control is good, but because the threat of fascism has become so overt that this is the best we can hope for right now.

Oh. It's a special case because things are so bad _right now_. The same justification as in every instance of abridging speech we later come to regret.