Commentary: What to do when liberals are the censors?

Citizens in authoritarian states know what they can read or publish, see or hear. In places such as China, Russia, Iran, Turkey and Egypt, semi-free private discussion and small-circulation publishing is permitted. But the dissident talk can’t become opposition action. That is cut off, either at the root or when it appears on the streets. In a revealing interview, the Chinese artist Qiu Zhijie, a

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リベラルが検閲者になるとき／権威主義的な国家のように政府が行うことができないため、検閲は市民社会に滑り落ち、「不快」や「傷つく」ことへの怒りの洪水が政府権力の代役になる／「ノー・プラットフォーム運動」