The Powerful Urge to Censor

Harvey Silvergate, co-founder of FIRE:

The sexual drive is the second most powerful human instinct. The urge to tell our fellow humans to “shut up” is first. As long as men and women hold positions of power, they will abuse that power. So the problems we face are eternal, which means we must always have a watchdog to keep that power in check. Thank goodness we have that in FIRE.

[From Mass-emailing Dec 23, 2025]

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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