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Only dictatorships fear freedom of speech:

Social media posts deemed to undermine “social stability” would be subject to blocking orders by a federal censor under a cabinet bill introduced yesterday. “The law applies as soon as it comes into force,” said Heritage Minister Marc Miller.

 

Let this sink in. 

Opinions made public via social media will upset the status quo, not shape, upend, or even have no effect on the society that knows about them. 

 

Opinions like these:

"I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life." 

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And yet on the other hand unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God’s image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.

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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it.  If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth:  if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. 

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Fellow citizens; above your national, tumultuous joy, I hear the mournful wail of millions!
whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are, today, rendered more intolerable by the
jubilee shouts that reach them. If I do forget, if I do not faithfully remember those bleeding
children of sorrow this day, “may my right hand forget her cunning, and may my tongue
cleave to the roof of my mouth!” To forget them, to pass lightly over their wrongs, and to
chime in with the popular theme, would be treason most scandalous and shocking, and would
make me a reproach before God and the world. My subject, then, fellow-citizens, is AMERICAN
SLAVERY. I shall see, this day, and its popular characteristics, from the slave's point of view.
Standing, there, identified with the American bondman, making his wrongs mine, I do not
hesitate to declare, with all my soul, that the character and conduct of this nation never
looked blacker to me than on this 4th of July!

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The simple act of an ordinary brave man is not to participate in lies, not to support false actions! His rule: Let that come into the world, let it even reign supreme—only not through me. But it is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie! For in the struggle with lies art has always triumphed and shall always triumph! Visibly, irrefutably for all! Lies can prevail against much in this world, but never against art."

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'Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit.' 

 

Every single one of these violates what Marc Miller termed as "social stability" and would be banned by a nameless, unelected and unaccountable apparatchik.

Indeed, these things DID upset the "social stability", the outright fabrication of what is actually the status quo where the utterance of truth will only bring about a sea change or at least moments of self-reflection of a society too burdened by the cares of the world to notice what its governments are doing.

But that is the point of opinions: the individual act of unburdening one's self of a truth that needs to be expressed so that others can see what is right or terribly wrong. 

Make no mistake that laws to spare this status quo even a second glance are not done for general peace or the vulnerable already at risk due to other governmental policies. These laws are meant to keep people in the dark and the status quo untouched.