Perhaps the most sinister aspect of the notice is its appeal to anonymous denunciation, whose main purpose is to create an atmosphere of fear, vulnerability, and mistrust in the public, the very atmosphere that totalitarian regimes love and create. What the authorities want is a population whose individual members fear to look at one another and therefore fear to converse, for such a population can’t oppose whatever is imposed upon it. Complete atomization, though without individuality, is what’s being aimed for.
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So not only can you get in trouble for speech (such as whatever someone may consider “hate speech”), but now you don’t even have to say anything at all!
Whatever happened to “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me”?
Or stares…
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