George Carlin dared to ask: who gets to decide what you hear? In 1988, George Carlin’s standup called out how easily a democracy can drift toward control when a few decide what the rest are allowed to hear. He recognized how censorship often hides behind the language of “decency” or “protection,” when what’s really at stake is who gets to define truth, and who gets silenced in the process. Democracy, he implied, can’t survive if it only protects speech that feels safe or familiar. Carlin’s words
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