"Hate speech" laws are coming to the US and they will follow a similar trajectory to "hate speech" laws in the USSR.
The communists sold brute-force censorship to the gullible peasantry through bogeyman tactics. They were told that anyone publishing dissident data was a "Secret feudal lord" and sought to enslave them. The only way to deal with these secret feudal lords was to send them to death camps.
Of course by the time the party had complete control, they gave up the ruse and "hate speech" laws were primarily used to throw gays and ********** into death camps, because no "secret feudal lords" existed to begin with.
This is the general trajectory American "hate speech" laws will follow. They will spread fear through gullible/uneducated communities, probably about "secret white supremacists coming to enslave them". "The only way to stop it is to stop the spread of online hate with hate speech legislation!".
Within a decade or two the ruse will serve no purpose because the political opposition (moderate ******** falsely depicted as "white supremacists") has been stamped out.
Time to focus on the real problem: Those financial laggard, high-crime communities. Brutal crackdown.
(No non-existent "secret feudal lords" or "white supremacists" have been harmed in the making of this post)
The communists sold brute-force censorship to the gullible peasantry through bogeyman tactics. They were told that anyone publishing dissident data was a "Secret feudal lord" and sought to enslave them. The only way to deal with these secret feudal lords was to send them to death camps.
Of course by the time the party had complete control, they gave up the ruse and "hate speech" laws were primarily used to throw gays and ********** into death camps, because no "secret feudal lords" existed to begin with.
This is the general trajectory American "hate speech" laws will follow. They will spread fear through gullible/uneducated communities, probably about "secret white supremacists coming to enslave them". "The only way to stop it is to stop the spread of online hate with hate speech legislation!".
Within a decade or two the ruse will serve no purpose because the political opposition (moderate ******** falsely depicted as "white supremacists") has been stamped out.
Time to focus on the real problem: Those financial laggard, high-crime communities. Brutal crackdown.
(No non-existent "secret feudal lords" or "white supremacists" have been harmed in the making of this post)
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