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"As spotted by Mike Stabile, director of public policy at the Free Speech Coalition, Deevers said in a press release that the bills 'set a course for pushing back against the moral decay foisted upon Oklahoma by the far-left’s march through our institutions to destroy the moral foundations upon which the United States and Christian Civilization had long rested'.”
#SamanthaCole, 2025
https://www.404media.co/oklahoma-senator-dusty-deevers-porn-bill/
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Is it wrong that I find it weirdly comforting to be back on familiar ground in the censorship vs. free expression debate? With the religious ultraright swinging the banhammer, against the consensual depiction of sex play, and free speech groups calling out their prudish authoritarianism.
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It would be a serious mistake to think that the forces that prevailed in the past will prevail again. No one is coming to save us from authoritarianism. If you hope to live in a democracy, then you need to be working on rebuilding them.
For the reason I explain in the rest of that post. It's been weird to have the conservative far right cynically claiming to care about freedom of expression, and liberals and the centre-left engaging in knee-jerk campaigns in favour of violating that universal human right (eg Christchurch Call).
> No one is coming to save us from authoritarianism
Nothing new there. As the old saying goes, there's no justice, there's just us.
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