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Reddit, the price of freedom

2 points by duiker101 15y ago

First, do not look at the video if you haven't an hard stomach. http://www.reddit.com/r/beatingwomen/comments/isrdn/lesson/ There is a subreddit for everything. Literally. From funny kittens to dead people kids. This is called "free of speech", everyone can show/talk about whatever they want. Today that link hitted the reddit homepage so everyone saw it. I want your opinion HN, do you think that having no censoship is worth giving this people a place to talk about this... shit?(sorry i can't find a better term)

Karunamon 15y ago
Yes. Emphatically yes. You think just because it isn't on Reddit it won't be talked about elsewhere? Reddit is a conversation platform. IMAO, the contents of those conversations should be irrelevant to everyone but those partaking in them.
- njharman 15y ago
  Agreed, Emphatically. Free speech means in particular protecting the speech that some/most/all people don't like. [edit, having watched it now. I can't believe anyone would want to censor this. This is exactly the type of thing we absolutely can not censor as a society. We can't ignore/hide away violence. That people suffer this kind of abuse needs to be pushed into everyone's face, everyday until we put an end to it. It's not someone else's problem its OUR problem.]
sorbus 15y ago
This is far preferable to the situations caused by the removal of freedom of speech. "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it," as the saying goes. I may be forced to defend some people who make my blood boil, but that's one of the prices you have to pay to avoid being censored. Admittedly, I wouldn't be especially sad if people with no formal training in a scientific field were required to place a disclaimer stating that after all statements about that scientific field, but that wouldn't stop them from saying stuff, it would just make it clear that they aren't experts.
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Reddit, the price of freedom

2 points by duiker101 15y ago

Karunamon 15y ago
Yes. Emphatically yes. You think just because it isn't on Reddit it won't be talked about elsewhere? Reddit is a conversation platform. IMAO, the contents of those conversations should be irrelevant to everyone but those partaking in them.
- njharman 15y ago
  Agreed, Emphatically. Free speech means in particular protecting the speech that some/most/all people don't like. [edit, having watched it now. I can't believe anyone would want to censor this. This is exactly the type of thing we absolutely can not censor as a society. We can't ignore/hide away violence. That people suffer this kind of abuse needs to be pushed into everyone's face, everyday until we put an end to it. It's not someone else's problem its OUR problem.]
sorbus 15y ago
This is far preferable to the situations caused by the removal of freedom of speech. "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it," as the saying goes. I may be forced to defend some people who make my blood boil, but that's one of the prices you have to pay to avoid being censored. Admittedly, I wouldn't be especially sad if people with no formal training in a scientific field were required to place a disclaimer stating that after all statements about that scientific field, but that wouldn't stop them from saying stuff, it would just make it clear that they aren't experts.
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