Glenn Greenwald

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Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

If you just look at this period in history - going back to the persecution of Copernicus and Galileo - you find that most great thinkers were punished for spreading ideas that centralized authorities deemed "false." And yet, people today want to replicate this model in law. https://t.co/YVQEQvXXIM — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 22, 2023

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Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Suffice to say, Voltaire - in and out of the Bastille - had to write in a subversive and obscure way because, like most Enlightenment thinkers, he was viewed as purveying "False Ideas" by institutions that believed they had apprehended and should enforce Universal Truth. https://t.co/8Qb3f6lUUr — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 22, 2023

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That "Absolute Truths" of one generation become the grievous and shameful errors of the next is foundational to all intellectual history. Yet, led by Brazil's imminent law, the democratic world is poised to join the Saudis, UAE, Singapore, Turkey in banning "false ideas" online. https://t.co/Rz7ph6Otwh — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 22, 2023