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		cooper12 on Sept 18, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: China Makes Chat Group Administrators Criminally L... > no matter how obscene Not true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Diana > or political Also not true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason_laws_in_the_United_Sta... I'd recommend reading up on these: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_Code_Authority * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_broadcasting_in_... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Act * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comstock_laws * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_State...

unabridged on Sept 18, 2017 [–]

I was just defining what free speech was, not saying the US has 100% free speech now, or that the US had good free speech pre-internet.

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