As far as I'm concerned, this trend toward attacking freedom and promoting censorship parallels the Inquisition, the Salem Witch Trials, and McCarthyism. During the Spanish Inquisition, most people were ignorant and illiterate, and the rest were caught up in the hysteria; or were too afraid to speak up or do anything about the madness that the Grand Inquisitors were perpetrating.
These days ignorance may still be widespread, but this time the Inquisition-style would-be censors are presumably outnumbered by those of us who prefer freedom over any form of tyranny, censorship included. This new Inquisition, in the form of censorship, can and should be stopped. If it is not stopped, we will only have ourselves to blame for allowing it to continue.
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