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The thing the censorship fans can't seem to understand is the power they are granting. Today the power is for their progressive friends, tomorrow it could be f
by IanDrake 6y ago
The thing the censorship fans can't seem to understand is the power they are granting.
Today the power is for their progressive friends, tomorrow it could be for regressive tyrants. Likely those are the very same people.
Just look to history. How many leftist uprising have worked out well?
- ben_w 6y agoI wish I could disagree. As I have remarked previously, freedom of speech is important for precisely the same reason that it is dangerous — it can change things. Like most non-Americans, I’m not even close to the USA legal position on free speech. I absolutely do not accept the right to make one group hate another by words alone. What I don’t know is how to achieve that simultaneously with preventing the kind of censorship that leads to nations walking blindfolded into dictatorships.
- IanDrake 6y agoSo we can censor Democrats that post hate about Republicans? It fits your guidelines.
- ben_w 6y agoOf course! If the post is “the only good X is a dead X”, I don’t care who is saying it, they shouldn’t be allowed to.
- IanDrake 6y agoWell, you said hate. You can say hateful things about a group without wishing them dead.
- ben_w 6y agoI said "make one group hate another", not "say hateful things". The post that started this entire discussion wasn’t the POTUS merely saying games should be boycotted if people were not fired for taking the knee — neither FB nor Twitter stopped him from doing that — it was him using the words “the shooting starts”.