An Illustrated Guide to Self-Censorship | The Free Press

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One day, Hypothetica’s king died, leaving the throne to his son, King Mustache. Unlike his father, King Mustache was highly sensitive to criticism. He issued a decree that made criticizing him illegal—an attempt to lay down an electrified “censorship fence” across the topic that would severely punish anyone who dared to cross it.

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    You can very easily weaponise this to convince people to marginalise out the fringes because "they're a tiny number of people" and the outcome of that can easily be a slow and steady move rightwards.

    It encourages marginalisation. And those at the margins are activists for minority groups.