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The wsj article is actually fairly accurate, since it has basically listed all the same arguments. The question is the last point: assuming everything else her
by sandoooo 7y ago
The wsj article is actually fairly accurate, since it has basically listed all the same arguments.
The question is the last point: assuming everything else here is true, is this sufficient grounds for deplatforming? Do you want to live in a world where it is?
Edit: apparently the HN answer is: yes, we totes do.
- euroPoor 7y agoDo you want your children to live in a world with +4 degrees because some purely financially motivated people stopped progress on the environmental protection front?
- sandoooo 7y agoIs the chance of this higher or lower in a world where scientists with opposing views are allowed to deplatform one another instead of applying the scientific method?
- CalChris 7y agoThe scientific method deplatforms. It is skeptical. It is observational. It is experimental. It refines and eliminates failed hypotheses. It is not fair to all viewpoints. For example, the scientific method deplatformed geocentrism.
- reaperducer 7y agoI want my children to live in a world where they are free to think and to read and to listen to a wide variety of opinions, and not just parrot those that come from the loudest voices.
- dang 7y agoCome on you guys, please keep predictable rhetoric off this site. It's tedious and we're here for curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 7y agoCome on you guys, please keep predictable rhetoric off this site. It's tedious and we're here for curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- euroPoor 7y agoIf this is predictable rhetoric to you, ok. It’s not personal slander, it’s a question to reflect upon for a lot of people.
- triceratops 7y agoYes, denial of man-made climate change is sufficient grounds for deplatforming in my book. Not that that's happening here. A scientific conference calling for freedom of speech is upset that a scientist is using their freedom of speech in a way the conference doesn't approve of.
- dang 7y agoPlease don't add flamebait to HN comments, regardless of how frustrated you feel by other users. It only makes things worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html