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ythn on March 9, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Notepad++ V 7.3.3 – Fix CIA Hacking Notepad++ Issu...

So what's your point? Are you trying to argue the USA has the same level of freedom as China or Iran?

yakult on March 9, 2017 [–]

I'm arguing that it's a more sophisticated and on the whole more humane system of suppressing dissent, but we shouldn't deny that it exists and serves the same functions.

openasocket on March 9, 2017 | [–]

Is it even possible to have a society that doesn't suppress dissent to some degree? And would such a state even be desirable?

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