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It's interesting how you offer censorship as the only alternative to "doing nothing". People trying to gain extraordinary power over others always that they nee
by quotemstr 7y ago
It's interesting how you offer censorship as the only alternative to "doing nothing". People trying to gain extraordinary power over others always that they need special authority to deal with some extraordinary emergency. I refuse to accept the idea that edgy things said on the internet constitute some kind of Reichstag fire justifying giving tech companies or politicians or NGOs the right to decide the truth.
If an idea is bad, you can discredit it using argumentation and evidence. If you can't, your alternative probably isn't as correct as you think. Who are you to decide a priori which ideas are good and which ones are bad? Who gave you that authority?
- pjc50 7y agoSo why are we losing against the anti vaxers?
- quotemstr 7y agoBecause experts betrayed the public's trust by spending years making false and self-serving claims while censoring those who tried to debunk these claims. Now the public doesn't trust experts even when they're right. The way to regain trust is to stop the censorship, not amp it up.