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Then all it will take to lose your democracy is for a dictator to proclaim his opponents a danger to democracy. Maybe using a Reichstag fire. You can't fight evil with evil, or fight undemocratic tyrants with undemocratic measures. Introducing vulnerabilities into your democratic system is a double edged sword.
> all it will take to lose your democracy is for a dictator to proclaim his opponents a danger to democracy.
This is true, but your framing of it as something that could be stopped if… something? is absurd
Except no one’s really doing that, they’re just generating outrage bait to prop up a retarded billionaire’s obviously nonsense claim that Twitter, a huge company, is (or was) secretly staffed exclusively by the far left. All evidence that has come out has shown not that, so they’re trying to come up with something else to be outraged about. FBI asking Twitter to stop criminals seems entirely unsurprisingly.
If you don't see anything wrong with the government forcing censorship on controversial political questions, such as whether elections are safe and fair, just imagine your own reaction if after the 2016 election, Trump's FBI would be monitoring Twitter for any information about Cambridge Analytica / Russia's interference, labeling them as misinformation and censoring and banning everyone mentioning them.
If your values only apply when they fit your wanted outcome, they aren't values they are pathetic excuses.
By the way, this opens the door to all the other agencies of the world outside US to demand same kind of access. Including European. Maybe China wants it too.
And for the record, I think Elon banning Elon Jet and journalists is wrong too. But there are too many people who only care about the censorship when it hurts them, and cheer for it when it suits them.
I’m fine with the government shutting down anti-democratic movements. I’m not fine with anti-democratic governments shutting down legitimate discussion that looks bad on them, or serving a foreign power. These are not the same thing.
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What am I missing then?
We're seriously still doing this? https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2022/12/the-core-argume...
Yes, this website full of brain dead right wingers.
Hmm, now where have I heard that recently?