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This is all of human history. People always want the ideas they believe to be harmful to remain unaired - and this is a reasonable stance from a utilitarian per
by beaconstudios 5y ago
This is all of human history. People always want the ideas they believe to be harmful to remain unaired - and this is a reasonable stance from a utilitarian perspective, assuming the censorship works. I don't like it, but that's the nature of prisoners' dilemmas: free speech requires a degree of cooperation among all participants to adhere to rules of engagement, and this trust is both easily broken and profitable to break.
Progressives cancel Rogan for spreading anti-vax sentiment, Conservatives try to cancel schools for studying CRT. Socrates was cancelled to death; it seems to be an eternal factor in political engagement.