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>there are some ideas that don't deserve a seat at the table Is it possible to enumerate the set of all ideas that cannot be expressed, and if so, how do you e
by ohithereyou 7y ago
>there are some ideas that don't deserve a seat at the table
Is it possible to enumerate the set of all ideas that cannot be expressed, and if so, how do you enumerate this set, and who has the power to determine the members of this set?
Advocating that someone should have their child drink bleach to cure their autism is a despicable act, and is likely criminal after the fact, but that's the difference here - it's criminal after someone takes action on it.
Quoting Justice Brandeis from Whitney v. California:
>Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. To justify suppression of free speech, there must be reasonable ground to fear that serious evil will result if free speech is practiced. There must be reasonable ground to believe that the danger apprehended is imminent. There must be reasonable ground to believe that the evil to be prevented is a serious one. [...] If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the process of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.
- andy_ppp 7y agoThey should still be allowed to be seen but should be heavily caveatted as NOT TRUE if we know they aren't. Another good one is the reporting on vaccines causing autism, but we all know vaccines save millions of lives.
- dfsDfass123124 7y agoTwitter obviously should be the ones to determine what is true and false.
- prepend 7y agoI can’t think of any entity whose NOT TRUE label would mean anything to me. And I think that I try to understand topics. I can’t imagine the flack that would come when some robot labels trans people’s gender identity as NOT TRUE based on biological grounds. I think that any group labeling things TRUE and NOT TRUE will only make things worse.