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Bakelite72's avatar

Without absolute free and uncensored speech, we have nothing. Voltaire said "I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it", because he knew -- as hopefully more people will wake up and appreciate before it's too late and they are forced to discover it the hard way -- that once the power to silence is granted, there is nothing preventing that power from one day suddenly being taken away from your preferred group by another, at which point you will find yourself an instant Enemy of the State. NOTHING is more important than totally unrestricted speech. The antidote to bad ideas is better ideas -- not silencing, de-platforming, and de-personing those with whom you may disagree.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

Good journalism defeats rotten journalism. Alas, the good journalism is off-limits to 90 percent of the public. Or they don't know it's out there.

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Jeremy M's avatar

Doesn't make the hunger for it any less real; thank goodness.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

There's actually a huge market for it. Ironically (or revealingly), the big advertisers don't want to support sites that deliver real journalism. Substack has grown because of this demand.

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feldspar's avatar

Substack is where mediocre journalism goes to become mediocre propaganda.

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SpC's avatar

You must have lots and lots of 'friends' on F*book.

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feldspar's avatar

What are 'friends' and what is Facebook?

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Patrick's avatar

And where feldspar goes to work on his material

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

Substack is where excellent journalists (many people not journalists by training) go to try to debunk excellent propaganda.

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Darren G Whitney's avatar

Hi. Evelyn Beatrice Hall is the true author of the quote.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/06/01/defend-say/

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