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Don't underestimate How Badly The Powerful Need Control Of Online Speech
https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/dont-underestimate-how-badly-t
e-powerful-nee d-control-of-online-speech-a9378cf036b4

Seems like almost every day now the mass media are blaring about the need for
speech on the internet to be controlled or restricted in some way. Today
they're running stories about Joe Rogan and Covid misinformation; tomorrow it
will be something else.
The reasons for the need to control online speech change from day to day, but
the demand for that control remains a constant. Some days it's a need to
protect the citizenry from online disinformation campaigns by foreign
governments. Sometimes it's the need to guarantee election security. Sometimes
it's the need to eliminate domestic extremism and conspiracy theories.
Sometimes it's Covid misinformation. The problems change, but the solution is
always the same: increased regulation of speech by monopolistic online
platforms in steadily increasing coordination with the US government.
It's actually pretty comical at this point, once you notice it. It's like if
you had an expensive Prada bag that your friend really coveted and she was
always making up excuses to try and take it home with her. "Gosh I'm carrying
all these small objects and I have nothing to carry them in!" 

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