[ExI] All speech is sacred or why Warcraftification of real life is a solution to various ills

[William Flynn Wallace]

In playing 'what if?" you have to have some rules: withdrawing a license is
a drastic thing and I think you would have a media rebellion if that were
tried as a threat.

Of course politicians are shameless and will try anything to get or keep
power. But they can't do anything unconstitutional, and so they would have
to bribe the media as a private person -sort of.  And if successful it
would still not be unconstitutional since it would be done by a private
company.

It's only gov. censorship I am afraid of.    bill w

On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 1:10 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> >…It seems to me that it all comes down to who should and who should not
> censor.  Private companies can do it without any constitutional
> violations.  Are we OK with that?  If you are not, you are not a libertarian
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> Agreed.  But what if… government bribes or threatens private companies
> into promoting only its own party?  Is that still OK?  If the government
> itself colludes with media to silence the opposition party, does that not
> lead to totalitarianism?  Looks to me like it does.  In that case, the
> government violated the first amendment by proxy.
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