dogegunate t1_jeg3ryj wrote on March 31, 2023 at 7:31 PM

Reply to comment by VelveteenAmbush in Senator Warner’s RESTRICT Act Is Designed To Create The Great Firewall Of America by vriska1

The West is supposed to be championing ideas of freedom and liberty. So yes, we should be allowing that because we have decided as a society that it is up to the people to decide what they want to think and not what the government dictates them to think. Or do you want to be like authoritarian China where we put up a Great Firewall to block anything that government deems a "threat"?

VelveteenAmbush t1_jegezam wrote on March 31, 2023 at 8:45 PM

If your conception of freedom and liberty means that the US would have been required to allow the USSR to own and operate CBS during the Cold War, then you're living in another universe.

dogegunate t1_jegn7xs wrote on March 31, 2023 at 9:42 PM

What the fuck are you talking about? You're talking about the Soviets acquiring and operating a major US news station, not that the Soviets have their own news station they operate that we can view if we want to in the US.

Go strawman someone else.

Also, allow doesn't mean required. But I guess you're so neck deep in straw that you can't read a dictionary.

VelveteenAmbush t1_jegos18 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 9:53 PM

> acquiring

No, just owning would be enough

Cool it with the insults, they only make you sound fragile