Free Speech, Censorship, and the Threat of Totalitarianism

“…in those wretched Countries where a Man cannot call his Tongue his own, he can scarce call any Thing else his own. Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing the Freeness of Speech.”   Silence Dogood, pseudonym of Benjamin Franklin, The New-England Courant, Number 49, 2-9 July 1722 Freedom of […] The post Free Speech, Censorship, and the Threat of Totalitarianism first appeared on Academy of Ideas.