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Logical fallacies aren't automatic falsehoods. They're things that can't be proven with formal logic.

The slippery slope is a fallacy and also a thing that fairly consistently happens in politics and law.

The point far up this thread, however, was that this proposal isn't a slippery slope. It's a leaky sieve. If there is a law against speech that covers enough cases to be even slightly effective against people with lawyers, and I am powerful and don't like you, then you are going to prison.






There are no laws that will constrain a regime defined by its lawbreaking. Your argument applies to all laws.



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