I believe MIT’s article is trying to make the case for deplatforming websites that go against ‘the narrative’. Basically, its an argument for more efficient and thorough censorship, written up as if we, the readers, are clamoring for someone to save us from ‘wrong thoughts’. This is the state of collapsed/captured Communist academia, coming to a website near you....
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DH was just telling me how in communist controlled Poland in order to hear VOA or Radio Free Europe he had to have a short wave radio which were almost impossible to get, and listen carefully so no one would overhear, as it was illegal to listen to them.
He also helped distribute a mimeographed underground newspaper; if he or the man who printed it were found, it would have been arrests and possibly prison.
The day he escaped, shortly before martial law which he knew was coming, was an experience of freedom he said only those who have escaped communism can know. But I can imagine.
He could hardly take anything with him or they would have know he was escaping.
Wow. No idea your hubby went thru all that. Brave guy.