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> You know what is worse than fake news ? Spaces before punctuation? > Who decides what is fake or what isn't ? Courts. > This is what despotism looks like.
by IfOnlyYouKnew 10y ago
> You know what is worse than fake news ?
Spaces before punctuation?
> Who decides what is fake or what isn't ?
Courts.
> This is what despotism looks like.
No, despotism is what despotism looks like.
> It looks like good intentions at first then gets abused[...]
That's just the slippery slope fallacy. It doesn't work as an argument because it's too broad. I. e. "now they're outlawing shooting at people, next thing you know, you can't even shoot the breeze anymore"
- wyager 10y agoBeing snarky about the GP's spacing is not argumentatively useful. Courts deciding whether or not you're allowed to say something is only marginally better than other government officials deciding whether or not you're allowed to say something. Slippery slope is only a fallacy in the strict Boolean sense. It's a perfectly useful heuristic in Bayesian reasoning. In particular, it speaks to the effects of shifting the Overton Window.
- WalterBright 10y agoThe courts have consistently failed to find any objective standard for "obscenity". There's no reason to believe they would do any better for "truth". One man's art is another man's porn, one man's truth is another man's propaganda.
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