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What Freedom of Speech?

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FRIDAY, JULY 4, 2025
What a glorious morning for America!
– Samuel Adams, Upon hearing the gunfire at Lexington [April 19, 1775]

HORNBERGER’S BLOG
July 3, 2025 What Freedom of Speech? In a totalitarian or authoritarian dictatorship, government officials do not need the support of the citizenry to exterminate freedom of speech. That’s because there are no elections to worry about. The regime simply starts having its military and paramilitary goons start arresting critics, disappearing them in terrorist confinement facilities, torturing them, and then killing them. Everyone else understands. No more criticism of the …
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