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    Authoritarian governments don’t take power because of free speech, they take power because there’s no free speech anymore

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      1 year ago

      This is like the chicken or the egg argument.

      Does authoritarian government take over because they’ve taken away freedoms … or do they take over because everyone is too apathetic to do anything about it all.

      Did they come in through force of will? Or because there was no opposing will?

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        Did they come in through force of will? Or because there was no opposing will?

        No right of free speech means opposition is limited