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In other words, don't censor through full censorship, censor through rate limiting, so if people complain you can say "Hey, we didn't censor him, we're just con
by ergot_vacation 5y ago
In other words, don't censor through full censorship, censor through rate limiting, so if people complain you can say "Hey, we didn't censor him, we're just containing his harmful ideas because we have the right (and DUTY!) to do that as the True Arbiters of What Is Right." What a load of nonsense.
I suppose if your goal is to silence your opponents while minimizing the sense of martyrdom it creates, this is useful. But if you have any interest in an actually free society instead of one engineered for and by your particular beliefs (because obviously YOUR beliefs are the right ones, after all), this is worthless.
The problem with deplatforming isn't that it needs to be "tweaked" somehow. It's that no one should have the power to make judgements about what is and isn't "acceptable" or "non harmful" speech, outside of edge cases like actual illegal activity. Making that power more insidious doesn't solve anything.