Every new government must go through two main tests. The first test is one of tolerance of public opinion and the other is the tolerance of public protest. If a government has the capacity to tolerate divergent views and dissenting opinion expressed in a free media, then it passes the first test.
If it has the capacity to tolerate peaceful protests to speak truth to power, then it has passed the second test.
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