It seems to cut both ways. If words are powerful, restricting words is also powerful. It's not clear why this leads to a pro-censorship stance, any more than to an anti-censorship one.
Oh indeed. That's why dictators both censor and propagandise.
It's a narrow path, absolutely a challenge to walk without slipping, and not one I feel confident of humanity rising to even as a team effort.
Just like the difference between liberty and authoritarianism in general: much as I'd like to be an anarchist in theory, in practice that's just a way to let people with big sticks take over.
It's a narrow path, absolutely a challenge to walk without slipping, and not one I feel confident of humanity rising to even as a team effort.
Just like the difference between liberty and authoritarianism in general: much as I'd like to be an anarchist in theory, in practice that's just a way to let people with big sticks take over.