"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The War on Free Speech Escalates
Submitted by Westernerd on Thu, 2016-12-15 04:00
Assaults on freedom of expression are disturbing because they are not made for the sake of protecting some other right, such as the individual right to privacy. Rather, those who advocate such restrictions are willing to sacrifice a fundamental human right for the sake of far less compelling considerations, such as social harmony or the avoidance of hurt feelings.
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