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3 ways the government can silence opinions it disagrees with, without using censorship

  • Written by Gregory P. Magarian, Thomas and Karole Green Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis
3 ways the government can silence opinions it disagrees with, without using censorshipThe government can make you silence yourself -- out of fear.Deepak Sethi, iStock/Getty Images Plus

When most people think of how governments stifle free speech, they think of censorship. That’s when a government directly blocks or suppresses speech. In the past, the federal government has censored speech in various ways. It has tried to block...

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