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You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. Now that access to large broadcast mediums is the norm, it's absolutely a blow to free speech to selectively cen
by refenestrator 6y ago
You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.
Now that access to large broadcast mediums is the norm, it's absolutely a blow to free speech to selectively censor some of it. Maybe we choose to make tradeoffs, but let's do so with our eyes open.
- choppaface 6y agoThanks to the internet, our eyes are more open than ever before. To the point of information overload. No amount of stupid can ever “put the toothpaste back in the tube.” If some speaker gets filtered from broadcast media, perhaps that speaker might rethink their message. Original cancel culture was even more restrictive—- it silenced voices due to the color of the speaker’s skin. It has always been a competitive endeavor to be heard. The internet might not be much of a fairer place for that game, but the potential reach is what makes the game worth it (or not, in some cases). If you think broadcast media gets it wrong, push back. But if you call it cancel culture, it’s easy to show what we see today is much less harmful than what came before.