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The Defenders of Censorship Now Admit Everything

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The Defenders of Censorship Now Admit Everything
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Jeffrey A. Tucker
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They no longer deny censoring. They’ve shifted tactics. Now, they defend censorship as a policy in the national interest. They’re merely stamping out disinformation, misinformation, and malinformation—strange words applied to any thought or idea disliked by government.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
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