[Mount Athos]

Only the "experts" should be allowed to speak, the same ones who were wrong about everything over and over

[Mount Athos]

found via ace

[Ouchthatonehurt]

#ObamaGate on Twitter needed to be taken down because...the virus?

[I want the USA back]

We already have censorship and thought control, by google, youtube, facebook and twit.

[cuban leaf]

I’ve been banned at three sites for my posts on this subject. At two of them I had been a member for over a decade.

And to be clear, in none of those cases was I accused of breaking the rules. They just didn’t like what I was saying and thought my posts could cause people to be reckless with their health.

Dead serious.

[a fool in paradise]

>>In the debate over freedom versus control of the global network, China was largely correct, and the U.S. was wrong.
Authored by a pair of law professors from Harvard and the University of Arizona, Jack Goldsmith and Andrew Keane Woods, the piece argued that the American and Chinese approaches to monitoring the Internet were already not that dissimilar:

The Chinese Communists censored the original reports of the outbreak of this deadly disease and destroyed the good doctors’ notes and samples.

FUAtlantic

[The Pack Knight]

It’s pretty obvious that a large segment of our elites view Chinese-style authoritarianism as the ideal form of government.

[Svartalfiar]

This interesting take on the First Amendment was the latest in a line of “Let’s rethink that whole democracy thing” pieces that began sprouting up in earnest four years ago. Articles with headlines like “Democracies end when they become too democratic” and “Too much of a good thing: why we need less democracy” became common after two events in particular: Donald Trump’s victory in the the Republican primary race, and the decision by British voters to opt out of the EU, i.e. “Brexit.”

Democracies will always take one of three routes: Dictatorship (tyranny), Oligarchy (tyranny), or anarchy.

There's a reason we were founded as a Republic, and why the US Constitution specifically guarantees each State a Republican form of government.