Lenins2ndCat to GenZedong • 2 years agoFederal court upholds law banning tech companies from censoring viewpointsarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square11arrow-up138arrow-down10file-text
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minus-square@anothertranscomrade@lemmy.mllinkfedilink13•2 years ago“For the bourgeoisie, freedom of the press meant freedom for the rich to publish and for the capitalists to control the newspapers, a practice which in all countries, including even the freest, produced a corrupt press.” -Lenin
minus-square@GloriousDoubleKlink8•2 years agoYeah. He aint wrong. I used to critically support free speech as some ideal to uphold. But the past 3 years it has occured to me that what too many mean by free speech is to have the freedom to lie. Not like there’s a way to prevent people from speaking freely. These days, the whole freedom of speech thing just reeks of pure idealism.
Free speech was a mistake.
“For the bourgeoisie, freedom of the press meant freedom for the rich to publish and for the capitalists to control the newspapers, a practice which in all countries, including even the freest, produced a corrupt press.” -Lenin
Yeah. He aint wrong.
I used to critically support free speech as some ideal to uphold.
But the past 3 years it has occured to me that what too many mean by free speech is to have the freedom to lie.
Not like there’s a way to prevent people from speaking freely. These days, the whole freedom of speech thing just reeks of pure idealism.