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I won't downvote you, but American history of free speech has some really dark spots. Read up on Comstock Laws or Sedition Act of 1918 and their victims.

Just like everywhere else, words on paper do not defend themselves, even if that paper is the Constitution. Authoritarian people will try to sneak in limitations into laws, free minded people will have to defend the principle.

This is just a new iteration of a very old war.



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