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Even if you consider filtering all the "bad words" and "touchy subjects", there are many ways to still say offensive things. The caption "so swag" for a hitler
by logicrook 11y ago
Even if you consider filtering all the "bad words" and "touchy subjects", there are many ways to still say offensive things. The caption "so swag" for a hitler photo or the "escaped from the zoo" for obama do not use any kind of offensive word.
As long as we don't restrict ourselves to pure newspeak, dangerous ideas will continue to proliferate.
- wambotron 11y agoWhat's more dangerous, someone saying (potentially tasteless) jokes, or people censoring everything they can deem offensive?
- artpepper 11y agoFalse dichotomy.
- logicrook 11y agoThe first obviously. As an analogy, imagine if we let people use knives freely. They might kill other people with them! Can you imagine if such things were not regulated by the government? Now imagine, words. They are, as the saying goes, even more dangerous than swords. So we need laws to regulate their usage. This will bring us one step closer to true utopia.
- sangnoir 11y ago> someone saying (potentially tasteless) jokes A tasteless joke is not the worst you could do with speech. It would be, if hate speech, libel, defamation and incitement didn't exist.Americans like to pretend these are European inventions and not dangerous because historically, the most impressive/powerful American orators were progressive (for their times).