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> "duh, just ban racism, anti-Semitism, ageism, homophobia and gender discrimination". This sounds reasonable at face value, but not one of these things is wel
by wyager 10y ago
> "duh, just ban racism, anti-Semitism, ageism, homophobia and gender discrimination".
This sounds reasonable at face value, but not one of these things is well-defined.
Many people interpret uncomfortable but entirely reasonable discussion of sociology and demography (e.g. discussions of wage differences or crime distribution) as racist or sexist or ageist. Many people confuse anti-Zionism or anti-theism for anti-Semitism. IMO it's better to be very conservative with banning such things, because the false positive risk is very high, and there are a lot of important things to discuss around these topics.
- illuminati1911 10y agoExactly. Especially today it's really difficult to have rational discussions about difficult topics because the radical people at both ends can't wait for an opportunity to to flag neutral or relatively neutral people to the opposite end unless they agree with everything they think. I will rather have Internet where people can say pretty much whatever they want without censorship, even racists, hateful, homophobic things etc. than Internet where some highly biased establishment thinks they are above everybody else and can decide the topics people talk about. There is very VERY thin line between preventing facists, racists etc. and becoming one yourself.