It's hilarious to see people on the Brazilian sub who were supportive of the ban now complaining about the VPN fine and saying it's excessive. People on that sub are extremely supportive of censorship, as is the Brazilian left in general (even more so than the American one). They think they can control it. That these cowtools that their side will create to censor cannot be used against them eventually, either by the opposite side or their own. That these extremely ambiguous laws that they support can never be interpreted in unfair ways. So being hit so soon with such a stark reminder of the reality they deny is extremely fitting.

Censorship is literally a good thing when it targets Nazis. If you think the Nazis are going to somehow give us browny points for not censoring them, you're even more naive than i could even imagine… 🥹

Syria had strict liability censorship with penalties to the first familial degree.

They still had a civil war.

Carl Schmitt wrote a whole book on how Nazis could exploit liberal democracy to gain power and then destroy it from inside, but nooo we must allow freeze peach for muh fascisterinos.

Karl Popper was right.

Karl Popper was right.

No he wasn't, ffs. Not in the way that every single liberal pro-censorship advocate thinks he. The entire point of Popper's paradox was that Popper was warning society of the dangers of arbitrarily declaring what tolerance and intolerance is and subsequently deciding what speech is acceptable. The whole point of the paradox is that his words were never supposed to be used a rulebook.

And what people don't take into account when discussing Popper's paradox is that you can still have intolerance within a tolerant society as long as there are clearly defined laws that punish violence and threatening speech. The U.S for the most part, actually does a pretty good job with this.

The funniest thing is that everyone who quotes Popper never applies his words to immigration for some reason, which actually has the chance to bring in more intolerant people who can eventually vote and change the laws of the land.