• cloud
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    2 years ago

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

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 years 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?

      • cloud
        1·
        2 years ago

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

        No right of free speech means opposition is limited