WHY should any one be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass the government? This sounds like a nice question to endear me to the powers that be, doesn't it?
Actually, it was asked 87 years ago, by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of Russia’s Bolshevik (later Communist) Party and founder of the dismantled Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
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