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Generally, I have found that it is not presently popular to have context-free opinions on issues of this sort -- if you believe that Alex Jones is a very bad pe
by codefreeordie 4y ago
Generally, I have found that it is not presently popular to have context-free opinions on issues of this sort -- if you believe that Alex Jones is a very bad person upholding very bad opinions, you'll probably support any bad consequences for him, however attained. If you believe that Alex Jones is a good person upholding good opinions, you'll then suddenly value the principles of law and privacy that historically would have prevented this from being permissible as evidence or the principles of journalism that would have prevented it from being widely published. (But would oppose those same principles in the case of a person that they then disliked)
(Check out https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/facpub/400/ https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/facpub/400/ , a fascinating study of how people observe different facts and reach different legal conclusions based on whether the acts in question are purported to be in support of causes which they support or oppose)