Fake News demanding censorship of anyone that questions their propaganda
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(this is from the UK’s BBC News)
edit - here is the north korean style attempt at thought policing :
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/59147659
You haven't demonstrated that "liberal capitalism" is the root of these problems, yet you invoke (Marxist villain systems) to associate that method of control with them. I'm not sure we need to invoke any imaginary systems. It seems to me that tyranny and corruption are just natural outcomes when you have a decadent society with an uneducated populace and no uniting moral code, that depend on some government or psuedo-government (megacorporation) entity to provide for them rather than being self-sufficient.
Meanwhile North Korea is a literal despotic dictatorship with no freedom of speech, so it's a good villain to point to when arguing for freedom of speech.
I think the guy just invoked North Korea because he's angry. Not everything is a rhetorical war. I think people here are smart enough to recognize commie blackpill propaganda when they see it and move on.
I certainly wouldn't try to argue that we've ever had true "free speech" anywhere. It's just an idyllic virtue. We got the closest humanity's ever been in the late 90's / early 2000's and then the crabs in the bucket pulled everyone back down - to the point that free speech is no longer even an ideal. I blame globalism. But there are logical reasons for it being a "good thing', and at least that its downsides are outweighed by its upsides. For one thing, I doubt a paradise of government by the worker for the workers could ever stand up to the scrutiny of free speech without shameless use of aggression.
I do have MacIntyre on my reading list already. :)
Please post archives for sites like these. Especially sites as big as the BBC. https://archive.md/YUeao
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actually according to the article this is nothing less than a "BBC reality check"
Anyone who has spent any time in Indonesia knows the flooding is because there is a wet season and due to a lack of planning controls people build so that watercourses and rivers are impinged, leading to floods. Plus Jakarta is sinking and there have been insufficient civil works to manage the water table since the Dutch left. It's not "linked" to cLiMaTe ChAnGe.