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I feel like today this freedom profits more to awful people than to the good of society.
by hashmal 10y ago
I feel like today this freedom profits more to awful people than to the good of society.
- 234dd57d2c8db 10y agoWell I'm glad laws are not created based on your feelings, but logic and reason.
- CM30 10y agoWell not really. Freedom of speech is meant to protect all views, including those other people might find wrong, abhorrent or against social norms. This can easily be both a 'good' (in the case of say, a pro gays right campaigner in a conservative theocracy) or 'bad' (in the case of a Neo Nazi in Germany) thing. But your view kind of sums up in a nutshell why freedom of speech is a hard battle. Because it's all too easy to only see 'horrible' people and views benefiting due to them being the type of views people would want to ban if freedom of speech didn't exist. It's the same kind of problem Tor advocates have when arguing that privacy and anonymity are rights people should have. Because people only see the drugs, crime and illegal porn and think that privacy is only something 'bad' people need. Either way, both freedom of speech and privacy benefit everywhere, yet get a bad rep due to people only seeing the negatives they allow rather than the people and rights they may save.
- hashmal 10y agoI completely agree with you. It doesn't change the feeling I have.
- DanBC 10y ago> Freedom of speech is meant to protect all views, Too often one person's freedom of speech is a megaphone used to drown out some marginalised group. http://imgur.com/a/LKiRU http://imgur.com/a/LKiRU
- Chris2048 10y agoFreedom of speech concerns censorship, it doesn't guarantee an audience, and doesn't mean anyone can be forced to listen. Do you have examples of freedom of speech used to disproportionately drown out opposing views, i.e. "marginalis[ation]"?
- adrienne 10y agoHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH oh my god you're serious.
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- syrrim 10y agoThat depends on what you consider to be the alternative to free speech. If you take it as "no speaking allowed ever", than freedom of speech benefits all equally. If you take the alternative to be "everyone I don't like isn't allowed to speak" then free speech disproportionately aids those you dislike.
- hashmal 10y agoI don't consider any alternative…
- syrrim 10y agoThat depends on what you consider to be the alternative to free speech. If you take it as "no speaking allowed ever", than freedom of speech benefits all equally. If you take the alternative to be "everyone I don't like isn't allowed to speak" then free speech disproportionately aids those you dislike.