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Mike Spencer wrote:
> D <nospam@example.net> writes:
> 
>> I find it very interesting that the only modus operandi western countries
>> can now resort to is banning and restricting free speech.
> 
> There's a large number of people who are variously possessed of rabid
> fanaticism

Yes: they're commonly called 'leftists'.

> -- religious, political or confabulated -- and another
> large tranche who are driven by sheer perversity.  The so-called
> "social media" as they are now operated enable these people widely to
> instantaneously disseminate overt falsehood, inflammatory rhetoric,
> believable misinformation and the like to a vast audience among which
> are the gullible, the fearful, the ignorant and the mentally unstable
> who can be swept into destructive action, potentially widely when
> informally coordinated via contemporary telecom tech.
> 
> The "crying 'FIRE' in a crowded theater" concept desperately needs to
> be updated.
> 
>> No one is talking about education, public awareness, treating individuals
>> as adults.
> 
> Educating or enlightening the fanatics and the perverse is not doable
> and they cannot safely or in good faith be treated as adults.  This is
> a problem with TFG who enjoys both a confabulated fanatic sense of
> self and a perverse enjoyment of doing unto others simply because he
> can.  He is neither educable nor enlightenable and it has been a big
> mistake to treat him as an adult.
> 
> 

Because of "people" like you, there is more "free speech" in Russia
and China than there is in the so-called "West". And the rules are
completely straightforward.