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and why is that bad? If someone holds an opinion that is harmful to the society and humankind as a whole, why should that be tolerated?

• jariel 6y ago
  Please take a moment of self awareness and reflection and read your comment, because I think really is the foundation of Orwellian authoritarianism. Have you considered that: 1) It's quite difficult to assert what actually does hurt people and; 2) more likely that these powers are merely going to be used for arbitrary political vindictiveness. If someone is saying 'ban the KKK from Facebook', sure, that's fine. But banning speech such as 'trans women are like women, but still different' - is totalitarian. 'Deadnaming' a trans person is also not very nice, but it's also not 'hate speech'. It will technically get you banned from Twitter, which is ridiculous. Side Note: the oddest thing about the people who want to suppress speech, is that I find they tend not to be 'overt, assertive people'. This is not the alpha-style nationalist authoritarianism of the gilded class, oddly, it's the opposite - it's the authoritarianism of the ostensibly vengeful transgressed and hyper-sensitive. It has Jacobin kind of element to it: populism of a kind of underclass, with shades of angry revenge.