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"It's wrong to say "that guy has dangerous ideas and should be censored", but it's another thing to say "that guy killed nearly 90 people to promote his manifes
by knieveltech 15y ago
"It's wrong to say "that guy has dangerous ideas and should be censored", but it's another thing to say "that guy killed nearly 90 people to promote his manifesto, we should make sure he doesn't get what he wanted""
But that's still censorship, you've just added some spin. Simply put you can't have it both ways. Either individuals are free to speak their mind (regardless of how heinous you may find their viewpoint) or they aren't, and if they aren't that's censorship and oppression.
- paulgb 15y agoIt has nothing to do with his ideas, it could have been a cake cookbook for all I care. What matters is that he used terror to promote it, and shouldn't be rewarded with the attention he desired. I'm not calling for government censorship of the document, and I'm not saying I agree with anonymous, but dismissing it as censorship ignores their actual, more noble intentions.
- knieveltech 15y agoAh, but there's the meat of our disagreement: "noble intentions". I don't see anything noble about an attempt at censorship, be it by private citizens or some government agency. How is this any different from proposing random edits be inserted into Mein Kampf or the Koran?