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Whenever someone tells you that preventing disinformation requires giving states total control over what people can say online, remember the role of samizdat in bringing down the Eastern Bloc dictatorships. Those governments also believed that giving themselves total control over what their citizens can publish was in everyone's best interests.
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It can be surprising what people discuss face-to-face in a park.
Whenever someone tells you that preventing white supremacist organising requires giving states unlimited surveillance powers over all forms of communication, remember that one of Russia's excuses for invading Ukraine is to fight fascists.
Statists always think there are good reasons to concentrate more power in the hands of states. As Orange Stalin's regime demonstrates, ensuring pluralist societies survive, let alone deepen our democratic practices, requires that we do the opposite.
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