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You know, So Samist thought we're really important in the Soviet Union and the post-Stalin era as a means of acquiring information.

Every word in every newspaper and in every book must be approved before it is published.

People who engaged in Samasad, they were literally risking life and limb.

You know, Samastad means underground publishing.

It was the means by which the Russian people actually were able to discover the lie killer

that was the Gulag Archipelago.

Courageous people did that.

I think we take for granted just how plentiful, you know, truthful information about the world is.

Free Pressure's Cromwell, giving up on fact-checking.

That First Amendment, that thing that is our business model,

all of a sudden, is no longer something that can be above ground,

that has to go underground.

There are examples of Samizdat in the People's Republic of China, in Cuba.

I assume there are examples in North Korea.

If people go to only one source, and the source they go to has an agenda,

and they're putting out disinformation,

our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to just hammer it out of existence.

We believe in free speech,

but then how are we accepting any form of this type of censorship?

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