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Also, any effort to regulate via law what people are spouting quickly becomes a cure worse than the disease.
by smitty1e 6y ago
Also, any effort to regulate via law what people are spouting quickly becomes a cure worse than the disease.
- erichocean 6y ago> Also, any effort to regulate via law what people are spouting quickly becomes a cure worse than the disease. China's economy seems to be doing fine, and the population is docile. What else do you think elites care about? My point is that the "cure" seems to work fine in practice so long as it isn't too onerous. Any restrictions on speech in the US are likely to be limited to volatile social issues (hate speech) and enforced primarily by elites using the private sector.
- thephyber 6y agoI think that's largely an attribute of the US legal system. The debates about legislation last so long and cost so much political capital that legislators are wary of making more frequent but smaller changes to laws. Also, a law is not always needed. Frequently culture and society have ways to discourage problems created by outliers without turning to new laws. The problem occurs when issues (like conspiracy thinking and lack of trust in long-lived institutions / "the establishment") start to move from outlier status to mainstream.