I think about the free speech vs. the power of propaganda about 50 times a day lately.
I mean we could make a law banning subversive speech. But it would take about 5 minutes for that to be weaponized for political purposes. That’s the burden of the openness. We have to let the chips fall where they may and have faith that truth wins out over the long arc of civilization.
Well again - the alternative is to make laws banning subversive speech, knowing damn good and well they will be instantly weaponized against political opponents for saying stuff like Trump should be impeached, and then backed up by our awesome 6-3 SCOTUS.
A very realistic-sounding twitter thread (you have to translate). Not good for Mariupol and the reports that the siege may have been broken, but good for Kyiv - Russians seem to be still a long way from encircling or reasonably attacking Kyiv.