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   Don't underestimate How Badly The Powerful Need Control Of Online Speech   
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   Seems like almost every day now the mass media are blaring about the need for   
   speech on the internet to be controlled or restricted in some way. Today   
   they're running stories about Joe Rogan and Covid misinformation; tomorrow it   
   will be something else.   
   The reasons for the need to control online speech change from day to day, but   
   the demand for that control remains a constant. Some days it's a need to   
   protect the citizenry from online disinformation campaigns by foreign   
   governments. Sometimes it's the need to guarantee election security. Sometimes   
   it's the need to eliminate domestic extremism and conspiracy theories.   
   Sometimes it's Covid misinformation. The problems change, but the solution is   
   always the same: increased regulation of speech by monopolistic online   
   platforms in steadily increasing coordination with the US government.   
   It's actually pretty comical at this point, once you notice it. It's like if   
   you had an expensive Prada bag that your friend really coveted and she was   
   always making up excuses to try and take it home with her. "Gosh I'm carrying   
   all these small objects and I have nothing to carry them in!"    
      
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