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Get Linkwise — free on iPhoneWe know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Every meritocratic pitch deck should print this at the top. The given is always conditional, and the giver can always rescind.
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The GuardianA Cuban journalist recounts the founding of Sneeze, the country's first longform independent magazine, and the state's escalating pushback that followed.