[mnx]

Yeah, but unless you're going full totalitarian, I don't see how it can work. It will just add additional legitimacy to the speech which is 'suppressed'. So unless you want to do a china style great firewall, and punish people for speaking out, maybe it's better to actually defend freedom, instead of limiting freedom in the name of protecting freedom?

Sorry if I sound frustrated. But I just think all this anti-free speech is a knee-jerk reaction to the symptoms of the rising far-right, not a well thought-out strategy of preserving liberal democracy.

[ahartmetz]

One of the most effective tools of propaganda ist repeating falsehoods until they "feel true". Limiting speech probably works against that.

[mnx]

"probably works" without any evidence is not the standard I feel should be set for taking away the most basic freedoms.