I know what some of you are thinking: “He’s finally lost his mind. Could Mr. Free Speech be condoning censorship?”

You’d be jumping to an incorrect conclusion on both counts. Let me explain.

We know that censorship comes in any form and across any medium. Neither is it isolated to any demographic or national border. We have censorship from outside sources such as administrations, political groups, and concerned parents both malicious and well meaning.

However, we also have varying levels of self-censorship that come from within our own psyche. This can be conscious, calculated, and lucid, or hidden within the darkest recesses of our being, sometimes seizing control of our otherwise calm and collected manners- fueled more by emotion that reason. I even talked at length about this subject a few weeks ago. It is this aspect of our culture that I find myself pondering more and more, especially in light of an incident that was recently brought to my attention via the National Coalition Against Censorship.

Welcome to the strange life of 19-year-old Justin Carter.

He’s in the Comal County, Texas jail awaiting trial for what court documents have called the “terroristic threat” he made on his Facebook page.

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