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Practically everybody knows this already and yet this comment shows up every time freedom of speech is discussed. Censorship is bad even when legally permissib
by eric_cc 4y ago
Practically everybody knows this already and yet this comment shows up every time freedom of speech is discussed.
Censorship is bad even when legally permissible. And we should still fight corporations acting unethically even when the law is on their side.
- giantrobot 4y agoWhat is unethical about not wanting to carry speech you don't agree with, is inflammatory, or outright misinformation?
- eric_cc 4y agoLarge platforms (twitter, YouTube, etc) banning views that they don’t agree with gives them power to truly shape society by controlling acceptable discourse. What they deem outright information may in fact be true. And even allowing clear misinformation (1+1=3) is important. We need people to learn to process information not protect them from it. Using 1+1=3 analogy, wouldn’t you want people to rally around tooling people to learn math?
- giantrobot 4y ago> We need people to learn to process information not protect them from it. Flagging misinformation is attempting to educate people.