This is a fascinating story. We should be very careful about censoring the opinions of ordinary people. It is a constand struggle to support free speech and we mustn't give up on it.
First we kill all the lawyers (I know you understand the context for that statement, and it is not intended to denigrate them), then we lock up all the librarians. A people with a framework of laws and a formal structure for information access and curation is very resilient in defending its culture.
This is a fascinating story. We should be very careful about censoring the opinions of ordinary people. It is a constand struggle to support free speech and we mustn't give up on it.
I keep thinking I will get to the end of this, but censorship seems a perennial human activity.
First we kill all the lawyers (I know you understand the context for that statement, and it is not intended to denigrate them), then we lock up all the librarians. A people with a framework of laws and a formal structure for information access and curation is very resilient in defending its culture.
I'm working on Sarajevo, the libraries there were destroyed.