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It is always unconscionable for the government to punish people for expressing an idea merely because government officials - or the majority of citizens - decide that those ideas are 'dangerous' or 'wrong.' That is a power nobody ought to possess.

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Glenn Greenwald
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 6
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