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Yep the government has for a while been dismantling any opposition by stacking the courts, replacing critical state media, attacking journalists and so on. The support for this kind of law is actually just consequent because social media is the platform that lends itself most to riling up a mob.

It's simple majoritarianism, rallying a hyper-loyal voter-base and disadvantaging scholars, intellectuals, scientists and so on.




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