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by azangru 1914 days ago
> Yes, you are accountable for the communications you make...

> Yes, you can be killed for the communications you make...

> Yes, you will be cancelled if your joke is taken out of context...

I guess the question here is whether anything can be done to change this. After all, the society has progressed to the point where it has proclaimed freedom of thought / conscience to be an important value, and, ostensibly, has stopped discriminating on religious grounds. There's no significant difference, in my opinion, between writing something in a textarea and collectively praying to a god or proselytizing on the streets.

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> the society has progressed to the point where it has proclaimed freedom of thought / conscience to be an important value

And then regressed over the course of about 10 years until people started screaming from the rooftops that freedom of speech is a cancer and needs to be outlawed.