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What's worse than a bad idea? A forced idea (or ideology) and the lack of freedom to express a contrary opinion. The real problem isn't those who disagree with

• etchalon 5y ago
  The idea anyone's freedom of speech is silenced because they can't say what they want through their preferred megaphone is ridiculous.
  • TimTheTinker 5y ago
    The idea that these megaphone institutions can and must act as arbiters of what's "ok" speech and what's not is socially untenable. The best marker of sweeping political radicalism is when no one is allowed to be neutral anymore--not even news outlets or public forums. When everything is political and everyone is forced out of political neutrality, we're in big trouble as a society. "If you're not for us, you're against us" is an ominous statement in any context, and when that becomes a mainstream political cry, it signals that freedom itself is coming to an end (not to mention freedom of speech).
    • etchalon 5y ago
      It's 100% social tenable. You could never walk into a private bar and demand the right to hand out Nazi propaganda, solely on the merits that "well, that's where all the people are!!" As for neutrality, there are plenty of actively neutral companies, in action, today. They're just not very popular. Because they're filled with horrible people who demand the right to say horrible things. And no one wants to hang out with those people. Now that the market has decided horrible beings aren't entitled to anyone else's space, the horrible human beings are insisting that the big mean bullies be forced, through threat of violence, to tolerate them. It's nonsense all the way down.