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I remember one of my teachers in grade school speaking out against the Moral Majority and other pro-censorship types in the 80's. The quote she was up in arms a
by stcredzero 7y ago
I remember one of my teachers in grade school speaking out against the Moral Majority and other pro-censorship types in the 80's. The quote she was up in arms about was something along the lines of how, "We must constrain the imaginations of our children."
Today's problems have nothing to do with people reading, imagining, creating, and thinking. Problems in 2019 have to do with people engaging specifically in groupthink and "othering."
Censorship, exclusion, and suppression do not reduce groupthink. Rather, those actions increase groupthink. Those actions create hothouses of concentrated groupthink insulated from criticism, skepticism, and the moderation of reality. (Also, if some honest introspection is done, one often finds that those actions are themselves motivated by groupthink.)
A live and let-live society where people are free to self-express lets people learn in the context of a reality more complicated and richer than just themselves. A live and let-live society lets people transcend their own small circle. It is the best antidote to the small minded groupthink that creates oversimplified, dehumanizing caricatures of people and reality.
It's suppression and censorship that causes people to retreat into such small circles, allowing groupthink to fester.
- freewilly1040 7y agoThe story of tumblr is really not about free speech suppression. They had a mix of explicit and non-explicit content, and had to choose one to decide what kind of advertisers to pursue. They chose non-explicit and it didn't work.
- stcredzero 7y agoThe story of tumblr is really not about free speech suppression. They had a mix of explicit and non-explicit content, and had to choose one to decide what kind of advertisers to pursue. Given the events of the past several years, I highly doubt the people with the ad dollars are innocent of free speech suppression. EDIT: Specifically, the people asking for YouTube suppression through "advertising" concerns were tied in with the people coordinating hit pieces against YouTube content. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0IYzF-zLMw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0IYzF-zLMw
- freewilly1040 7y agoDisney saying "don't put my brand next to porn" isn't speech suppression. Happy to consider your opinion, though I'm not so curious as to watch a 24 video to learn about it.
- stcredzero 7y agoDisney saying "don't put my brand next to porn" isn't speech suppression. That has nothing to do with their suppression of even mainstream news and commentary, like Phillip DeFranco.
- 80386 7y agoFrom the ads I got on Tumblr, it felt like one of the things they were trying to do was build the leftist millennial equivalent of Glenn Beck's email lists or whatever. I'm not sure how well that would mesh with a porn ban. (I'm surprised there aren't any companies pursuing this! I thought Gab was going to, but it looks like they monetized with pro subscriptions [instead?].)