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Free speech and democratic equality go together. Censorship means that there is a select group of powerful people that get to decide what ideas are allowed.
by fallingknife 6y ago
Free speech and democratic equality go together. Censorship means that there is a select group of powerful people that get to decide what ideas are allowed.
- claudiawerner 6y agoThey can go together, but they can also conflict. There's lots of argumentation on how hate speech and pornography can undermine democratic equality for minority groups and women respectively. See the SEP article on freedom of speech[0]. [0] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freedom-speech/#DemCitPor https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freedom-speech/#DemCitPor
- fallingknife 6y agoI get what the article is saying, but I feel like they are playing word games. Hate speech laws are not increasing freedom, they are trading off freedom for social cohesion, which all societies do to some extent, just not necessarily with censorship.