Comments by "Joe Madden" (@joemadden4160) on "'Online Harms Act' to be introduced tomorrow" video.

  1. Legislating peace, love and understanding...by forcing people to NEVER question THEM.
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  2. An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings. Salman Rushdie
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  3. If surveillance, censorship and propaganda are the three pillars of authoritarianism, information, organization and leverage are the counter-pillars of citizen power. And the Internet provides the best and most appropriate infrastructure for strengthening all three. Zeynep Tufekci
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  4. The Soviet system of propaganda and censorship existed not so much for the purpose of spreading a particular message as for the purpose of making learning impossible, replacing facts with mush, and handing the faceless state a monopoly on defining an ever-shifting reality. Masha Gessen
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  5. I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination. Julian Assange
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  6. The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. Tom Smothers
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  7.  @chickadeestevenson5440  Who decides what's pornographic? Or cruel? Who defines it? Who defines bullying? The Nazi in the PM's office?
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  8. In China, the rules of the market are not always that transparent. So it's very hard. Also, the national TV networks are all owned by the government, so our shows are subject to censorship by the networks. Every now and then, we are told that certain subjects cannot be talked about. There are frustrations. Yang Lan
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  9. Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all. Lois Lowry
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  10.  @katieh3236  So, if I say something that doesn't hurt 99.9% of the population, it should still be censored because that .1% is hurt? 😂😂😂😂
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  11. If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many 'bads' - bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even 'bad' white males. Only, when you write about 'bad' white males, they don't complain about it. And need I say that there are 'good' blacks, 'good' homosexuals and 'good' women? Charles Bukowski
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  12.  @googlesucks662  What? The most highly educated society that mass murdered tens of millions of people and eventually bankrupted itself? That Soviet Union? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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