Elon can do what he wants. But he needs to admit that being a "free speech absolutist" was a stupid idea and that he was wrong. He never will though.

Wow....this coming from the ultra conservative NY Post means Murdoch's through with Trump.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/don-t-give-any-money-to-con-artist-trump/ar-AA15l3TP

So if you are in control of an entity that feels threatened by, say, press scrutiny; if you feel that it endangers your control to have people be aware that other options not under your control exist--well, then you have well-established historical precedents you can follow.

Finally, they put such complete restrictions on travel that Soviet citizens, for all practical purposes, could not legally leave the country without government permission--which was typically withheld. The entire country became a fenced-in jail, where it was dangerous even to know non-sanctioned information about foreign countries, much less express an interest in going to one.
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ones controlled by the Communist Party; it no longer mattered what the people wanted.

Then, opposing parties expressing anti-Bolshevik ideas--even ones that were also Marxian socialists--were outlawed and persecuted.

The press was brought wholly under the control of the Communist government and party, so that the government was entirely free from being examined or held responsible for its policies--and that people would not even have a good idea what was happening in Soviet Russia.
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policies to something more appealing to the people--to the majority of impoverished peasants, in particular. But their ideology told them that peasants were a backward political class, and that the Revolution had to be led by the "proletariat." Only they weren't that popular with industrial workers either.

Well, something had to be done, and something was done.

In the first place, democratic institutions set up after the February Revolution were dismantled and replaced by pseudo-democratic...+

When the Bolsheviks (later rebranded as Communists) took control of Russia in November 1917, one of the first things they discovered--if they hadn't anticipated it from the beginning--was that their plans and ideas were deeply unpopular with the majority of people in what remained of Russia at that point; in fact so unpopular that, if ordinary citizens were allowed to express their opinion about things, they would soon be swept out of power.

One approach might have been to change...+

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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont-change-our-minds

Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds
New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason.

#cognition #logic

Need somewhere else to hide his ill-gotten gains now that trump org is under investigation.

#moneylaundering #trump #politics
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-nfts-2658971249/