To be fair, free speech was always a *very tenuous concept* in the west. Punishing people for their *thoughts* was the norm. The church was the choice instrument for torturing people for rebellious thoughts, same as the mullahs do in Islam. Inquisitors and mullahs were the norm.
It was the temporary changes in the elite order in the late 1700s and early 1800s that caused a massive change, but it is now returning to the feudal order, which is native to both the west and Islam. In contrast, the dharmic world was always a bastion of free speech.
Churchmen and the barons lived in castles, to protect themselves, not only from the enemy, but also from their peasantry [the flock, in their own terms!]. In total contrast, the dharmic teachers lived among the people, without any need for such security against their ow people.
All this concept of the gated apartments/societies were very European concepts from their feudal days. And Communism and Fascism did not invent anything in the field of social oppression. They simply copied the practices of the church and extended them.
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