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You expect the library police to come swarming out of unmarked vans?
Theres some decent people on both sides. Pence, for example, would never have stooped to this, nor McConnell - not that I'd vote for them. I dont get that nasty vibe from Biden either.
No it isn't. Burning actually destroys the book and its contents. Suppressing misinformation (not sure why you put that in quotes. Perhaps you mean something else?) simply removes it from being available in a specific venue. The misinformation is still available to you if you wish to consume it through some other avenue. You can't unburn a book. (I know what your likely rebuttal will be. Don't bother. It's not the point.)
So, you're unaware of this?
www.washingtontimes.com
“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”
"All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."
American politics really is kids playing dress up. What baffles me is when the locals say “yep! That’s our guy/gal!”
I'm not castigating or giving a pass to anyone, and I sure as heck ain't gonna support any attempt to censor or suppress anyone. I just think the idea of burning books is dangerous, even beyond the censorship part of it.
And? Were any laws or edicts passed stating Amazon could not sell such books? Did the government demand Amazon turn over it's physical inventory so the books could be destroyed? NO. They ASKED them to curtail their promotion and sale of books containing misinformation because it was a detriment to public health.So, you're unaware of this?
Biden aides pressed Amazon on ‘vaccine misinformation,’ reducing ‘visibility’ of COVID-related books
Senior Biden administration aides summoned Amazon officials to the White House during the height of the pandemic to discuss “propaganda and misinformation” in books for sale on the retail giant’s website that questioned the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines.
If those are the words you want to use that's your prerogative. That's not what is happening though. These things are not the same no matter how much you want to convince yourself and others they are.
The most significant thing is the suppression of information, whether it's done by behind-the-scene meddling, or a commission as some seem to have wanted just a few years ago, or by tossing a book on a bonfire.
Oh no, people using free speech to comment on someone else's free speech!
Yeah, but it's very hard to suppress an idea, no matter how many books containing that idea you burn. It just seems to me that those who burn books so often don't stop there.
The suppression of information never stops with the information itself. Disappearing people is the ultimate memory hole and happened all to often in the 20th Century. People like Solzhenitsyn have been among the lucky ones. To condemn one party and ignore or justify similar things by another is to focus on one tiger while another slips up behind you.
