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> One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting. - Salman Rus
by mawise 6y ago
> One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
- Salman Rushdie
As soon as you get behind censorship, you are preventing things like critique of your government that are really really important. The same is true for defending things like encryption to prevent online eavesdropping. It's easy for a pro-censorship individual to point to 8chan which is part of why this is such a struggle.
- soared 6y ago> As soon as you get behind censorship, you are preventing things like critique of your government This doesn't seem true to me. We currently censor child porn, but that doesn't mean we censor critiques of the government. You can censor one thing without censoring everything (despite that seeming contrary to most people's opinions in this thread).