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>If suppressing speech didn't matter, no one would be worried about it being suppressed.

We could worry about it because the principle might one day be used against us. It's one thing to ban swastikas, but who gets to define what counts as "terrorist"? We already see that being abused to suppress dissidents abroad.



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