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RE: YouTube is Becoming an Orwellian Nightmare

in #steemit7 years ago

Welcome to Steemit! I'm glad Steemit finally approved your account.

It is a shame that Youtube is censoring content because we learn more from people that disagree with us than from those we see eye to eye with. It is through the open and free exchange of ideas that we can see the truth. I think Oliver Wendall Holmes said it best…

“that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That, at any rate, is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment. Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge. While that experiment is part of our system, I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe…”
Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. 616, 631 (1919) (Holmes, J., dissenting)

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Thank you so much, it's great to be here finally. Nice court case drop haha. That's also a great Wendal Holmes quote and it's kinda undeniable.