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The author concludes that the government does not support freedom of popular expression.

Why does the author believe this?

Because in order to support freedom of popular expression, a government must accept the expression of ideas that the government opposes (in addition to ideas that the government supports).

Even though the government accepted a recent protest rally, the message at the recent protest rally was one that the government supports.

The author hasn’t presented any evidence that the government does NOT support expression of ideas that the government opposes. So the author is assuming that the government would not support expression of ideas that it opposes.

Not necessary, because the argument is based on what kind of speech the government would support, not on the government’s involvement in rally setup.

Not necessary, because even if the message at the rally DID concern a function of the government, we still know that the government supported the rally message. What matters is whether the government would accept speech that it opposed, not whether the speech is about the government.

Necessary, because if it were not true — if the government WOULD have accepted a protest rally whose message the government opposed — then we do not have enough to infer that the government wouldn’t accept speech that it opposes. So we wouldn’t be able to conclude that the government does not support free speech.

Not necessary, because even if there are groups that are afraid of how the government would respond, that has no bearing on whether the government would or would not accept expression of ideas that it opposes.

Not necessary, because the government’s motivation for showing acceptance of the rally is irrelevant. What matters is whether the government accepts speech with a message it would oppose.

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