If you believe that a certain kind of speech is violence, then censorship is a safety issue. I live in Portland, and that idea has been the cause of a lot of violence.
"Everyone lived with fear of arrest: the stall-keeper selling lemons who eked out a living by selling newspapers on a street corner, arrested for distributing counter-revolutionary propaganda, was acquitted only when the police discovered that he couldn’t read." --Graeme Fife, "The Terror" (2004)
This was not all that long ago, and not that difficult to slip into again. As they say, these things happen very slowly, and then very rapidly. The Terror indeed.
It is frightening to read about how quickly this kind of censorship can lead to violence. It's something we all need to remember.
If you believe that a certain kind of speech is violence, then censorship is a safety issue. I live in Portland, and that idea has been the cause of a lot of violence.
"Everyone lived with fear of arrest: the stall-keeper selling lemons who eked out a living by selling newspapers on a street corner, arrested for distributing counter-revolutionary propaganda, was acquitted only when the police discovered that he couldn’t read." --Graeme Fife, "The Terror" (2004)
1794 was not a good year for free expression.
My goodness, yes...Antoine Lavoisier. "The Republic needs neither scholars nor chemists; the course of justice cannot be delayed."
This was not all that long ago, and not that difficult to slip into again. As they say, these things happen very slowly, and then very rapidly. The Terror indeed.
I for one am getting scared of The Terror reprise.
(N.B.: not the Roger Corman movie with Jack Nicholson and Boris Karloff. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x82xyun)
They didn't stop until the 1930s thon not as many as during the Terror.