Funny you should mention the Rwandan genocide as I used precisely that example elsewhere in this thread to demonstrate how censorship is used to advance a genocidal agenda. I referenced this in my first essay (margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/a-prim…):

“Everyone wonders how Hutus could have suddenly started axing their Tutsi neighbors to death after being inundated with waves of anti-Tutsi propaganda from Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines. Read Philip Gourevitch’s We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda.”

Those who advocate for the abridgment of our right to free speech fail to understand that empowers the government to define what is permissible, which means it can criminalize any speech that threatens their hegemony, as has occurred in every totalitarian and genocidal regime in history. The instant the people relinquish their freedom of speech is the instant they become slaves.