It's the (Democracy-Poisoning) Golden Age of Free Speech
Jan 17, 2018•19 min
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Episode description
For most of modern history, the easiest way to block the spread of an idea was to keep it from being mechanically disseminated. Shutter the newspaper, pressure the broadcast chief, install an official censor at the publishing house. Or, if push came to shove, hold a loaded gun to the announcer’s head. This actually happened once in Turkey.
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