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by ThrowawayR2 1727 days ago
> "Free speech is great if almost everyone is reasonable. ... Empirically, free speech has failed ..."

The problem being that democracy, even representative democracy, also only works if almost everyone is reasonable and (tying back to speech) informed. Once you give up on the population being reasonable, it's a short step to saying that someone "reasonable" ought to control what they see and rule over what they do "for their own good, of course". Even if that happens to be true, down that road lies madness.