Suddenly, there has been this startling 180 degree turn among the powers-that-be regarding the source of the Wuhan virus. Naturally, all of this reinforces my belief that John Stuart Mill was right about wanting free speech rather than all of the censorship that dominates on social media.

trident765 · 2021-05-31T02:43:44+00:00

The masses see no contradiction in this because they define truth to be whatever the authority figures decide it is.

kalchaya · 2021-06-01T10:15:34+00:00

It follows the usual well established protocol: 1. Someone figures out what you're up to. 2. You lie like about it, accuse the whistleblower of being a 'conspiracy theorist, tinhatter, etc. 3. A little more evidence is leaked. You doubledown. Maybe try to avert attention to something else 4. More evidence come out. You go into damage-control mode. Sorta kinda admit there is some truth, but its exaggerated. 5. Even more evidence is found. You no longer bother to deny it, and hope no one remembers all your lies.

thefirststone · 2021-05-31T03:23:48+00:00

Mill did not want absolute freedom. I marked up my paper copy of "On Liberty" while I dissected it over the course of several shits, but I threw it away from disgust (not because it was my bathroom copy, either).

Free speech extremism is a danger to the social order. He knew that. The Founding Fathers knew it. Our lives are a small price to pay to keep bug-eyed niggers and jews and wops in power.

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