{"id":29474,"date":"2018-01-06T11:49:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T16:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29474"},"modified":"2018-01-06T11:49:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T16:49:43","slug":"censorship-is-the-cause-of-every-revolution-in-human-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29474","title":{"rendered":"Censorship \u201cIs The Cause Of Every Revolution In Human History\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2018\/01\/censorship-is-the-cause-of-every-revolution-in-human-history.html\">Censorship \u201cIs The Cause Of Every Revolution In Human History\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>In response to a question about stopping \u201cfake news\u201d, Edward Snowden <a title=\"notes\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markscott82\/status\/949276178698907648\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Censorship does not do good. We might want to believe it does, and this gets into the fake news problem, for example, that if we just empower Facebook to decide what we can and can\u2019t see and what is good and bad, the problem can be solved. But this is a mistake for a number of reasons.<\/p>\n<p>One, it creates a slippery slope where now we have private corporations deciding what can and cannot be said. But further, let\u2019s say there are clear cases, we\u2019re talking about things like Jihadist propaganda, we\u2019re talking about fascist communities that are promoting ideas that are actively harmful, out in the public. The problem is, if you censor them, you don\u2019t actually remove them. <strong>You don\u2019t stop the idea from being spread. You just force them underground. It is underground where these ideas actually propagate best and most effectively. This idea that we can just stamp out ideas, we know does not work. This is the cause of every revolution in human history<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>President Kennedy <a title=\"agreed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/ws\/?pid=9100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agreed<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"st\">Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed, the American government is doing <a title=\"what King George did\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2013\/07\/nsa-spying-is-exactly-the-kind-of-thing-which-caused-the-revolutionary-war-against-king-george.html\">what King George did<\/a> before the American Revolution \u2026 trying to\u00a0<a title=\"crush dissent\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/?s=%22crush+dissent%22\">crush dissent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Censorship \u201cIs The Cause Of Every Revolution In Human History\u201d In response to a question about stopping \u201cfake news\u201d, Edward Snowden notes: Censorship does not do good. We might want to believe it does, and this gets into the fake news problem, for example, that if we just empower Facebook to decide what we can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[120,249,2500,8530,685,5510],"class_list":["post-29474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-censorship","tag-edward-snowden","tag-history","tag-john-f-kennedy","tag-revolution","tag-washingtons-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29475,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29474\/revisions\/29475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}