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by WarOnPrivacy 1678 days ago
A consensus-challenging internet is perceived by both governments as a threat to central authority, and the pervasive surveillance and speech restrictions they’ve begun to mutually embrace will produce an authoritarian center of gravity that over time will compress every aspect of individual and national political differences until little distance remains.

This is why both parties are so bizarrely hostile to Section 230.