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A quotation from Henry Commager
If we establish a standard of safe thinking, we will end up with no thinking at all. That is the only “safe” way, and that is, needless to say, the most precarious, dangerous, of all ways.
Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1949-11-05), “What Ideas Are Safe?” Saturday ReviewMore about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #commager #henrycommager #conformity #groupthink #idea #playitsafe #safety #thinking #thought #thoughtcontrol #unthinking
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A quotation from Henry Commager
If we establish a standard of safe thinking, we will end up with no thinking at all. That is the only “safe” way, and that is, needless to say, the most precarious, dangerous, of all ways.
Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1949-11-05), “What Ideas Are Safe?” Saturday ReviewMore about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #commager #henrycommager #conformity #groupthink #idea #playitsafe #safety #thinking #thought #thoughtcontrol #unthinking
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A quotation from Henry Commager
If we establish a standard of safe thinking, we will end up with no thinking at all. That is the only “safe” way, and that is, needless to say, the most precarious, dangerous, of all ways.
Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1949-11-05), “What Ideas Are Safe?” Saturday ReviewMore about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #commager #henrycommager #conformity #groupthink #idea #playitsafe #safety #thinking #thought #thoughtcontrol #unthinking
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A quotation from Henry Commager
If we establish a standard of safe thinking, we will end up with no thinking at all. That is the only “safe” way, and that is, needless to say, the most precarious, dangerous, of all ways.
Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1949-11-05), “What Ideas Are Safe?” Saturday ReviewMore about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #commager #henrycommager #conformity #groupthink #idea #playitsafe #safety #thinking #thought #thoughtcontrol #unthinking
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A quotation from Henry Commager
We cannot have a society half slave and half free; nor can we have thought half slave and half free. If we create an atmosphere in which men fear to think independently, inquire fearlessly, express themselves freely, we will in the end create the kind of society in which men no longer care to think independently or to inquire fearlessly.
Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1949-11-05), “What Ideas Are Safe?” Saturday ReviewMore about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #fear #freeexpression #freedomofspeech #freedomofthought #freethinking #independence #inquiry #intellectualfreedom #oppression #questioning #thoughtcontrol
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A quotation from Henry Commager
We cannot have a society half slave and half free; nor can we have thought half slave and half free. If we create an atmosphere in which men fear to think independently, inquire fearlessly, express themselves freely, we will in the end create the kind of society in which men no longer care to think independently or to inquire fearlessly.
Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1949-11-05), “What Ideas Are Safe?” Saturday ReviewMore about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #fear #freeexpression #freedomofspeech #freedomofthought #freethinking #independence #inquiry #intellectualfreedom #oppression #questioning #thoughtcontrol
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A quotation from Henry Commager
We cannot have a society half slave and half free; nor can we have thought half slave and half free. If we create an atmosphere in which men fear to think independently, inquire fearlessly, express themselves freely, we will in the end create the kind of society in which men no longer care to think independently or to inquire fearlessly.
Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1949-11-05), “What Ideas Are Safe?” Saturday ReviewMore about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #fear #freeexpression #freedomofspeech #freedomofthought #freethinking #independence #inquiry #intellectualfreedom #oppression #questioning #thoughtcontrol
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A quotation from Henry Commager
We cannot have a society half slave and half free; nor can we have thought half slave and half free. If we create an atmosphere in which men fear to think independently, inquire fearlessly, express themselves freely, we will in the end create the kind of society in which men no longer care to think independently or to inquire fearlessly.
Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1949-11-05), “What Ideas Are Safe?” Saturday ReviewMore about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #fear #freeexpression #freedomofspeech #freedomofthought #freethinking #independence #inquiry #intellectualfreedom #oppression #questioning #thoughtcontrol
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A quotation from Henry Commager
We cannot have a society half slave and half free; nor can we have thought half slave and half free. If we create an atmosphere in which men fear to think independently, inquire fearlessly, express themselves freely, we will in the end create the kind of society in which men no longer care to think independently or to inquire fearlessly.
Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1949-11-05), “What Ideas Are Safe?” Saturday ReviewMore about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #fear #freeexpression #freedomofspeech #freedomofthought #freethinking #independence #inquiry #intellectualfreedom #oppression #questioning #thoughtcontrol
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Unfalsifiable Claims and Unaccountable Power: Why #Theocracy Requires #ThoughtControl
49 Pages Posted: 27 Jan 2026
Russell BellThis paper examines the relationship between unfalsifiable #religious claims and #political authority, arguing that #theocratic #governance inherently requires thought #control.
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
In the democracies of the world, the passion for freedom of speech and of thought is always accentuated when there is an effort anywhere to keep ideas away from people and to prevent them from making their own decisions. One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education and thus make it impossible for them to understand what is going on in the world as a whole. […] The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books, but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1943-05-11), “My Day”More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/81…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #bookburning #education #freepress #freespeech #freedomofexpression #freedomofspeech #freedomofthepress #freedomofthought #information #media #oppression #thoughtcontrol #tyranny #understanding
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
In the democracies of the world, the passion for freedom of speech and of thought is always accentuated when there is an effort anywhere to keep ideas away from people and to prevent them from making their own decisions. One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education and thus make it impossible for them to understand what is going on in the world as a whole. […] The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books, but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1943-05-11), “My Day”More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/81…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #bookburning #education #freepress #freespeech #freedomofexpression #freedomofspeech #freedomofthepress #freedomofthought #information #media #oppression #thoughtcontrol #tyranny #understanding
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
In the democracies of the world, the passion for freedom of speech and of thought is always accentuated when there is an effort anywhere to keep ideas away from people and to prevent them from making their own decisions. One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education and thus make it impossible for them to understand what is going on in the world as a whole. […] The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books, but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1943-05-11), “My Day”More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/81…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #bookburning #education #freepress #freespeech #freedomofexpression #freedomofspeech #freedomofthepress #freedomofthought #information #media #oppression #thoughtcontrol #tyranny #understanding
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
In the democracies of the world, the passion for freedom of speech and of thought is always accentuated when there is an effort anywhere to keep ideas away from people and to prevent them from making their own decisions. One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education and thus make it impossible for them to understand what is going on in the world as a whole. […] The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books, but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1943-05-11), “My Day”More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/81…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #bookburning #education #freepress #freespeech #freedomofexpression #freedomofspeech #freedomofthepress #freedomofthought #information #media #oppression #thoughtcontrol #tyranny #understanding
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
In the democracies of the world, the passion for freedom of speech and of thought is always accentuated when there is an effort anywhere to keep ideas away from people and to prevent them from making their own decisions. One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education and thus make it impossible for them to understand what is going on in the world as a whole. […] The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books, but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1943-05-11), “My Day”More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/81…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #bookburning #education #freepress #freespeech #freedomofexpression #freedomofspeech #freedomofthepress #freedomofthought #information #media #oppression #thoughtcontrol #tyranny #understanding
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The Structural Necessity of #ThoughtControl: Why #Theocracy and #IntellectualFreedom Are #Logically Incompatible
This paper argues that #theocratic #governance and #intellectual #freedom are not merely in tension but logically incompatible.
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We dont't need En-Shittification
We don't need no #ThoughtControl -
Oh, look! 🎉 Yet another genius idea from the land of freedom, where the government now wants to dictate college ideology in exchange for cash. 🤔 Because nothing screams academic integrity like a little mandatory state-sponsored thought control! 🏫💸
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-sets-hiring-foreign-enrolment-terms-colleges-get-funding-advantage-2025-10-02/ #freedomofspeech #academicintegrity #thoughtcontrol #collegeideology #governmentoverreach #HackerNews #ngated -
A quotation from George Orwell
There are people who are convinced of the wickedness both of armies and of police forces, but who are nevertheless much more intolerant and inquisitorial in outlook than the normal person who believes that it is necessary to use violence in certain circumstances. They will not say to somebody else, “Do this, that and the other or you will go to prison”, but they will, if they can, get inside his brain and dictate his thoughts for him in the minutest particulars.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1947-03), “Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool,” Polemic Magazine, No. 7Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/78563/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #selfrighteousness #armedforces #coercion #conformity #establishment #inquisition #intolerance #lawenforcement #mindcontrol #orthodoxy #police #thoughtcontrol #onetrueway
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A quotation from Robert Ingersoll
There can be nothing more utterly subversive of all that is really valuable than the suppression of honest thought. No man, worthy of the form he bears, will at the command of church or state solemnly repeat a creed his reason scorns.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1873-12) “Individuality,” Chicago Free Religious SocietySourcing, notes: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #honesty #honor #resistance #belief #compulsion #creed #freedomofconscience #freedomofreligion #freedomofthought #profession #religiousfreedom #subversion #suppression #thoughtcontrol #value #worthiness
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A quotation from Robert Ingersoll
There can be nothing more utterly subversive of all that is really valuable than the suppression of honest thought. No man, worthy of the form he bears, will at the command of church or state solemnly repeat a creed his reason scorns.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1873-12) “Individuality,” Chicago Free Religious SocietySourcing, notes: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #honesty #honor #resistance #belief #compulsion #creed #freedomofconscience #freedomofreligion #freedomofthought #profession #religiousfreedom #subversion #suppression #thoughtcontrol #value #worthiness
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A quotation from Robert Ingersoll
There can be nothing more utterly subversive of all that is really valuable than the suppression of honest thought. No man, worthy of the form he bears, will at the command of church or state solemnly repeat a creed his reason scorns.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1873-12) “Individuality,” Chicago Free Religious SocietySourcing, notes: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #honesty #honor #resistance #belief #compulsion #creed #freedomofconscience #freedomofreligion #freedomofthought #profession #religiousfreedom #subversion #suppression #thoughtcontrol #value #worthiness
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The thought control that the Trump administration tries to impose makes the tendency exceed the authoritarian - it's totalitarian.
#trump #thoughtcontrol #thoughtpolice #1984isNOW #Doge #ElonMusk #USApol #totalitarianism
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The thought control that the Trump administration tries to impose makes the tendency exceed the authoritarian - it's totalitarian.
#trump #thoughtcontrol #thoughtpolice #1984isNOW #Doge #ElonMusk #USApol #totalitarianism
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The thought control that the Trump administration tries to impose makes the tendency exceed the authoritarian - it's totalitarian.
#trump #thoughtcontrol #thoughtpolice #1984isNOW #Doge #ElonMusk #USApol #totalitarianism
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The thought control that the Trump administration tries to impose makes the tendency exceed the authoritarian - it's totalitarian.
#trump #thoughtcontrol #thoughtpolice #1984isNOW #Doge #ElonMusk #USApol #totalitarianism
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The thought control that the Trump administration tries to impose makes the tendency exceed the authoritarian - it's totalitarian.
#trump #thoughtcontrol #thoughtpolice #1984isNOW #Doge #ElonMusk #USApol #totalitarianism
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"So instead of saying #NonCitizen or #migrant, they're supposed to say #alien. Instead of saying #integration, they're supposed to say #assimilation, things like that. And this particular worker described it as the most #1984 thing that they've ever gotten. And this is happening all across the #government"
#Orwellian #Fahrenheit451 #Dystopia #RayBradbury #NeoMarcarthyism #ideology #repression #newspeak #FreedomOfSpeech #ThoughtControl #Censorship #HUAC #GreatPurge #BookBurning #Wiping #Digital #Enshittification #NineteenEightyFour #BrainRot
#WhatNext | "Why #Trump ’s #DataPurge is a Digital Book Burning"
https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next-tbd/2025/02/donald-trump-is-changing-america-down-to-the-code
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"So instead of saying #NonCitizen or #migrant, they're supposed to say #alien. Instead of saying #integration, they're supposed to say #assimilation, things like that. And this particular worker described it as the most #1984 thing that they've ever gotten. And this is happening all across the #government"
#Orwellian #Fahrenheit451 #Dystopia #RayBradbury #NeoMarcarthyism #ideology #repression #newspeak #FreedomOfSpeech #ThoughtControl #Censorship #HUAC #GreatPurge #BookBurning #Wiping #Digital #Enshittification #NineteenEightyFour #BrainRot
#WhatNext | "Why #Trump ’s #DataPurge is a Digital Book Burning"
https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next-tbd/2025/02/donald-trump-is-changing-america-down-to-the-code
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"So instead of saying #NonCitizen or #migrant, they're supposed to say #alien. Instead of saying #integration, they're supposed to say #assimilation, things like that. And this particular worker described it as the most #1984 thing that they've ever gotten. And this is happening all across the #government"
#Orwellian #Fahrenheit451 #Dystopia #RayBradbury #NeoMarcarthyism #ideology #repression #newspeak #FreedomOfSpeech #ThoughtControl #Censorship #HUAC #GreatPurge #BookBurning #Wiping #Digital #Enshittification #NineteenEightyFour #BrainRot
#WhatNext | "Why #Trump ’s #DataPurge is a Digital Book Burning"
https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next-tbd/2025/02/donald-trump-is-changing-america-down-to-the-code
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"So instead of saying #NonCitizen or #migrant, they're supposed to say #alien. Instead of saying #integration, they're supposed to say #assimilation, things like that. And this particular worker described it as the most #1984 thing that they've ever gotten. And this is happening all across the #government"
#Orwellian #Fahrenheit451 #Dystopia #RayBradbury #NeoMarcarthyism #ideology #repression #newspeak #FreedomOfSpeech #ThoughtControl #Censorship #HUAC #GreatPurge #BookBurning #Wiping #Digital #Enshittification #NineteenEightyFour #BrainRot
#WhatNext | "Why #Trump ’s #DataPurge is a Digital Book Burning"
https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next-tbd/2025/02/donald-trump-is-changing-america-down-to-the-code
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"So instead of saying #NonCitizen or #migrant, they're supposed to say #alien. Instead of saying #integration, they're supposed to say #assimilation, things like that. And this particular worker described it as the most #1984 thing that they've ever gotten. And this is happening all across the #government"
#Orwellian #Fahrenheit451 #Dystopia #RayBradbury #NeoMarcarthyism #ideology #repression #newspeak #FreedomOfSpeech #ThoughtControl #Censorship #HUAC #GreatPurge #BookBurning #Wiping #Digital #Enshittification #NineteenEightyFour #BrainRot
#WhatNext | "Why #Trump ’s #DataPurge is a Digital Book Burning"
https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next-tbd/2025/02/donald-trump-is-changing-america-down-to-the-code
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A quotation from George Markstein
Questions are a burden to others
Answers a prison for oneselfGeorge Markstein (1926-1987) British journalist, author, screenwriter
The Prisoner, 01×01 “Arrival” (1967-09-29) [with David Tomblin]Sourcing, notes: wist.info/markstein-george/744…
#quote #quotes #quotation #acceptance #answers #censorship #compliance #control #questions #selfcensorship #thoughtcontrol
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"But just how far back does this policy of thinly-veiled thought control go?"
#bookburning #thoughtcontrol #politicalideology #history #modernpolitics
What Was the First Banned Book in History? https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-was-the-first-banned-book-in-history
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#ChatControl is just a precursor to #ThoughtControl
They even kept the names similar, on trying to pretend otherwise.
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Oh what a twist here ..
Turns out #AdolfMurks aka #ElonMusk bought #Twitter with secret #Russian #Money.
Who would have seen that coming?
(Or rather, who wouldn't ?)#SocialMedia #ThoughtControl #SecrectService
https://eutoday.net/russian-oligarch-behind-musks-twitter-purchase/
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@philip_cardella @suswatibasu @AmitR @arnfinnp
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...#CCP is now even able to control the narratives on all social and other media within the #GreatFirewallOfChina, not only apply effective #centureship. They even have been using #Orwellian #ThoughtControl techniques, prohibiting the use of certain words, sometimes temporarily.
2) Apart from ethnic minorities, which are often brutally supressed (e.g. the #Uyghurs), there really aren't the type of #CultureWars...
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@philip_cardella @suswatibasu @AmitR @arnfinnp
(2/n)
...#CCP is now even able to control the narratives on all social and other media within the #GreatFirewallOfChina, not only apply effective #centureship. They even have been using #Orwellian #ThoughtControl techniques, prohibiting the use of certain words, sometimes temporarily.
2) Apart from ethnic minorities, which are often brutally supressed (e.g. the #Uyghurs), there really aren't the type of #CultureWars...
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@philip_cardella @suswatibasu @AmitR @arnfinnp
(2/n)
...#CCP is now even able to control the narratives on all social and other media within the #GreatFirewallOfChina, not only apply effective #centureship. They even have been using #Orwellian #ThoughtControl techniques, prohibiting the use of certain words, sometimes temporarily.
2) Apart from ethnic minorities, which are often brutally supressed (e.g. the #Uyghurs), there really aren't the type of #CultureWars...
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@philip_cardella @suswatibasu @AmitR @arnfinnp
(2/n)
...#CCP is now even able to control the narratives on all social and other media within the #GreatFirewallOfChina, not only apply effective #centureship. They even have been using #Orwellian #ThoughtControl techniques, prohibiting the use of certain words, sometimes temporarily.
2) Apart from ethnic minorities, which are often brutally supressed (e.g. the #Uyghurs), there really aren't the type of #CultureWars...
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@philip_cardella @suswatibasu @AmitR @arnfinnp
(2/n)
...#CCP is now even able to control the narratives on all social and other media within the #GreatFirewallOfChina, not only apply effective #centureship. They even have been using #Orwellian #ThoughtControl techniques, prohibiting the use of certain words, sometimes temporarily.
2) Apart from ethnic minorities, which are often brutally supressed (e.g. the #Uyghurs), there really aren't the type of #CultureWars...
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A quotation from Truman, Harry S:
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Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/truman-harry-s/62469/#quote #quotes #quotation #censorship #fear #meme #selfdestruction #thoughtcontrol #authoritarianism
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The #CollegeBoard Says #APPsychology Is ‘Effectively #Banned’ in #Florida
“To be clear, any A.P. Psychology course taught in Florida will violate either #FloridaLaw or #CollegeRequirements,” the College Board said.
#FLDOE #Education #Heterosexism #Hate #Discrimination #Censorship #Indoctrination #ThoughtControl
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/03/us/florida-ap-psychology-courses.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare -
The #CollegeBoard Says #APPsychology Is ‘Effectively #Banned’ in #Florida
“To be clear, any A.P. Psychology course taught in Florida will violate either #FloridaLaw or #CollegeRequirements,” the College Board said.
#FLDOE #Education #Heterosexism #Hate #Discrimination #Censorship #Indoctrination #ThoughtControl
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/03/us/florida-ap-psychology-courses.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare -
The #CollegeBoard Says #APPsychology Is ‘Effectively #Banned’ in #Florida
“To be clear, any A.P. Psychology course taught in Florida will violate either #FloridaLaw or #CollegeRequirements,” the College Board said.
#FLDOE #Education #Heterosexism #Hate #Discrimination #Censorship #Indoctrination #ThoughtControl
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/03/us/florida-ap-psychology-courses.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare -
The #CollegeBoard Says #APPsychology Is ‘Effectively #Banned’ in #Florida
“To be clear, any A.P. Psychology course taught in Florida will violate either #FloridaLaw or #CollegeRequirements,” the College Board said.
#FLDOE #Education #Heterosexism #Hate #Discrimination #Censorship #Indoctrination #ThoughtControl
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/03/us/florida-ap-psychology-courses.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare -
The #CollegeBoard Says #APPsychology Is ‘Effectively #Banned’ in #Florida
“To be clear, any A.P. Psychology course taught in Florida will violate either #FloridaLaw or #CollegeRequirements,” the College Board said.
#FLDOE #Education #Heterosexism #Hate #Discrimination #Censorship #Indoctrination #ThoughtControl
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/03/us/florida-ap-psychology-courses.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
