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Just like we destroyed unrestricted tobacco stores


Nobody has a right to unrestricted tobacco stores.

Everybody has a right to free speech, and free speech frequently requires anonymous speech. This is why the protection of journalists' sources is so important, and why principled journalists are willing to go to jail to protect them.

You yearn for the end and couldn't care less about the means. But there are also those who couldn't care less about the end, but yearn for the means.

How can you distinguish between the two? And which do you think best describes the parties behind this global push to de-anonymize the Internet?


Why don't I have a right to unrestricted tobacco stores and gambling?

Pornography is a form of speech btw.


> Why don't I have a right to unrestricted tobacco stores and gambling?

Because--unlike free speech--those are not essential to freedom and democracy.

Care to answer my questions?


I don't really see how being able to read Mein Kampf is essential to freedom and democracy.


Yes yes, the internet is tobacco, TV rots your brain, the radio pushes devil music, and the printing press gives the peasants too many dangerous ideas. Shut it all down.




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