Literally state controlled = not state controlled

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    3 years ago

    Free speech isn’t a policy.

    It is absolutely a policy.

    It’s a philosophical idea

    That becomes a policy when the domestic bureaucracy implements it as such.

    We have freedom of speech in the dumb as fuck constitution, but history shows that the government can take it away at any point.

    So long as it doesn't, "Free Speech" is the policy of said government.

    The government cracks down all the time throughout our history on people they think are using it against their interests. COINTELPRO and assassinations are a perfect example of this.

    The historical focus of COINTELPRO has been on activist communities - people actually attempting to realize their rhetoric through deeds rather than just distributing newsletters. The FBI didn't shut down the whole NAACP. It focused on the folks who organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

    Most leftists who actually apply a Marxist critique/viewpoint understand the futility of arguing freedom of speech being a real thing.

    And yet here you fucking are. I guess we're both :LIB:s