Originally published via PJ Media:
This is why the U.S. brand of censorship is so insidious: Because of the First Amendment and the vestiges of a functional legal system, it’s not (yet) possible for the state to direct censorship out in the open as it is in China or North Korea or any number of countries.
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free,” Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe said.
By outsourcing censorship to ostensibly private entities, the government maintains the façade of freedom of the press while achieving effectively the same results as more nakedly authoritarian governments. Arguably, the outsourcing is even advantageous to the state, as it can maintain its fiction of moral virtue as a “democracy.”
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