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> there's five people shouting in my and your ears So, accepting your absolute scenario, we have two diametrically opposed possibilities: one in which it's up
by commandlinefan 5y ago
> there's five people shouting in my and your ears
So, accepting your absolute scenario, we have two diametrically opposed possibilities: one in which it's up to me to slog through the noise to find the signal and another (the one you're proposing) where somebody else does that for me. By now, I think it's pretty obvious that nobody - not you, not me, and definitely not an unpaid "moderator" - can be trusted to filter out just "noise" and not inject their own biases. So, yes, given just those two options I'll absolutely take the option where I have to do the work of filtering out spam myself than trusting some unaccountable partisan to do my thinking for me.
- vkou 5y agoThen I'll just pile more freedom spam on, until you won't have enough hours in the day to do that work.
- CivBase 5y agoWhat does spam even have to do with proliferation of misinformation to begin with?
- vkou 5y agoIt's a lever that pries open the non-qualified 'more speech = more freedom' argument, by demonstrating very succinctly that in order to maximize freedom, we, ironically, have to restrict it.
- CivBase 5y agoWhat? Who is arguing more speech = more freedom? Speech restrictions limit the subject matter if speech, not the sheer volume of speech overall. You also seem to be conflating the freedom to say what you want with the right to be listened to.