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by dizlexic 282 days ago
Why? Cynical is believing people must be protected from opinions.

I'm far more optimistic than most.

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Oooooof. Yeah, we should definitely let governments pipe their propaganda directly into every surface in our lives constantly. Surely that's something that's healthy and good for all of us. Governments have no incentive to lie and have no power to buy out all the bandwidth.

"Well, at least I made money on the government shutting down discussion" is deeply messed up.

I love this moronic take because it's governments that will enforce what information is deemed as propaganda. 10/10 cognitive disconnect.
No, you are being thick. The governments are issuing the propaganda. Read the post again.
If you can't think around this corner I can't help you,

Who will prohibit it? Magical Gnomes?

If you say the UN let me remind you that the UN is comprised of Governments, the majority of which are considered autocracies.

So in short, you want dictatorships worldwide to be empowered to define and control speech.

Sounds... Great...

Also If you'd like we could go into the ineffectiveness of the UN in general, but I'm not going to spend the time typing all of that out.

edit: fixed a missing word

If you are going to build strawmen to cut down over and over, there's clearly no intellectually fertile soil here. You seem to be enjoying operating both sides of some imagined conversation quite well, and I'll leave it to you.
So you can’t think around that corner I guess.

I guess you do believe magical gnomes would enforce your ban on government propaganda in ads.