<parody>
Okay, let's retroactively suspend John McCain for singing "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb bomb Iran" on a hot mike.
President George W. Bush should be suspended for invading Iraq on false or flimsy pretexts, resulting in 6,000 American soldiers killed and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.
Obama lied when he said "you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan" eleven times and this turned out not to be true (90% anyway). Shouldn't the social networks censor patently false and misleading statements by a very influential leader?
Ronald Reagan said something about launching the nukes on the USSR, I don't remember the exact quote. Cancel him off social media.
Et cetera.
</parody>
The harm in censorship is that it actually reduces the flow of communication and information, for future historical records as well as for the present.
Okay, let's retroactively suspend John McCain for singing "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb bomb Iran" on a hot mike.
President George W. Bush should be suspended for invading Iraq on false or flimsy pretexts, resulting in 6,000 American soldiers killed and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.
Obama lied when he said "you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan" eleven times and this turned out not to be true (90% anyway). Shouldn't the social networks censor patently false and misleading statements by a very influential leader?
Ronald Reagan said something about launching the nukes on the USSR, I don't remember the exact quote. Cancel him off social media.
Et cetera.
</parody>
The harm in censorship is that it actually reduces the flow of communication and information, for future historical records as well as for the present.