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Barack Obama: “We cannot have a society in which some dictator someplace can start imposing censorship here in the United States.”

On the recordDecember 18, 2014
We cannot have a society in which some dictator someplace can start imposing censorship here in the United States.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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