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And the battle is long from over. The whole anti free speech crowd is just living on a similar effect. People who are so intolerant to weirdness that they want
by 1337biz 7y ago
And the battle is long from over. The whole anti free speech crowd is just living on a similar effect. People who are so intolerant to weirdness that they want to censor it away just because they feel offended by it.
- dinkudunk 7y agoThat feels like a straw man. Perhaps we have to define weirdness before we pass judgement. Blatant fascism/racism/homophobia etc.: Justifiably censurable according to the ECHR [0], specifically see Article 10.2, Article 11.2 and Article 17. See for example _E.S v Austria_. Google hammer: Weird but not in violation of human rights conventions. [0]: https://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Convention_ENG.pdf https://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Convention_ENG.pdf
- Volundr 7y agoSorry who is trying to censor weirdness? Last I knew albinoblacksheep.com and zombo.com where doing just fine, and no one was trying to take them down. Maybe you are aware of something I'm not, and there really is a campaign against weirdness that I just haven't seen, but it feels to me like you are trying to drag this topic down an unrelated political tangent. Please don't.
- jameskegel 7y agoThis reply seems needlessly obstinate and accusatory
- Volundr 7y agoAccusatory? Probably. I'll acknowledge that I'm making assumptions about GPs motivations based on the language he used. Obstinate however implies stubbornness in the face of reason, and there is absolutely none in the original comment to be stubborn in the face of. It simply states, with no evidence, that there is an "anti-free speech" crowd, and that it hates weirdness. If there is a real campaign against weirdness on the internet, I'd genuinely like to know about it and where it's coming from.
- drngdds 7y agoThe people you consider anti-free-speech don't dislike your ideas because they're weird.
- yoz-y 7y agoOnly if they are "one weird tricks".