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People keep confusing extreme disapproval of ideas with censorship. If you say "the Holocaust didn't happen!" and people decide that they don't want to be your
by api 9y ago
People keep confusing extreme disapproval of ideas with censorship. If you say "the Holocaust didn't happen!" and people decide that they don't want to be your friend anymore and private organizations like corporations and universities decide to no-platform you, that's not censorship. That's just people exercising their free choice en masse.
There are some ideas that are justifiably extremely unpopular: racism, extreme religious bigotry, advocacy of genocide or apology for such, etc.
- frabbit 9y agoExactly. But to be clear, I actually am completely against e.g. Hate Speech laws and while I might support students deciding that they do not want a holocaust denier on their campus I am against handing that decision over to the university corporation.
- api 9y agoThat's my position as well. People and private organizations are free to ignore or exclude speech but it should never be criminalized.
- Mithaldu 9y agoHow would students remove the denier? Lynch mob? I don't think your idea of "let individual groups of people angry enough to act handle it instead of authorities acting on calmly predetermined rules" scales particularly well or elegantly.