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History shows that the worst decision are "we wanted good but didn't consider the consequences". Compare and contrast with FOSTA to prevent sex trafficking (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/congress-censors-inter...).

> “Anyone who thinks that the Communist regimes of Central Europe are exclusively the work of criminals is overlooking a basic truth: The criminal regimes were made not by criminals but by enthusiasts convinced they had discovered the only road to paradise. They defended that road so valiantly that they were forced to execute many people. Later it became clear that there was no paradise, that the enthusiasts were therefore murderers.” - Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being



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