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If speech is noise, how does noise help anything? Hitler was a popular charismatic figure in Europe before the war. Would you have made sure that his big Prim
by jollybean 4y ago
If speech is noise, how does noise help anything?
Hitler was a popular charismatic figure in Europe before the war.
Would you have made sure that his big Prime Time speeches were lined up with broadcasting so that everyone in Europe had the opportunity to hear what this wonderful man has to say in 1936? Because he bought network time on the Radio? And bought placements in all of the cinema theatres?
Or would you let the press do a little summary and put it in a few newspapers and maybe that's that?
What about the extra few hundred thousand people who are going to die from a disease, because some wayward doctor is running around telling people 'the government created the vaccine to control people' and 10% of the population believes it. What 'more speech' is going to convince those people of the truth, when 'more speech' from any rational, reliable medical source only makes the idiots more suspicious? Do we just let them die?
'Freedom of Expression' is a very important right, but now and again, there are issues we have to contend with.
Information is power, the press knows that very well, which is why even though they guise their narratives in 'pretty much mostly facts' - they can still drive bias and manipulation through.
We have to contend with the reality that 'the truth' - which is probably what we are all seeking, is somehow not well communicated in the commons, terribly communicated by politicians, somewhat well communicated by our the government (depending on the area), and reasonably well communicated by the mainstream press, but with large swaths of bias. And yes, generally defer to 'Freedom of Expression' as a hugely important pillar of freedom.
- sneak 4y agoAnd yet somehow we now hold heliocentric beliefs. Censorship won't educate ignorant people.