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This is quite patronizing to people in "first world" countries.

If there is no limit to free speech is it not possible that lies and falsehoods are so potent that spreading them leads to an authoritarian fascist police state?

There is a line that has to be drawn, for me it is solidly on the free-speech end of the scale, but absolutely not "unlimited".

I hope enough people will recognize when an idea is moving a society from democracy to autocracy and in this case all options to stop the autocrat should be used, including shutting down their ideas.

Trump walked very close to the line with his big lie on the legitimacy of the last US presidential election.



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