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In my experience, the notion of being "for or against freedom of speech" is actually referring to something more subjective, and that phrasing is used to imply
by happytoexplain 4y ago
In my experience, the notion of being "for or against freedom of speech" is actually referring to something more subjective, and that phrasing is used to imply which side of the disagreement the speaker believes is correct, like referring to the debate about abortion as the debate about murdering babies. It signals a strong bias.
- OrangeMonkey 4y agoWould it be better to phrase it as "I believe that other people should be able to hear from people they want to" and "I believe that we should stop people from hearing from certain people"?
- mantas 4y agoReferring to abortion as women health issue is strong bias too. Some questions are biased on all sides.
- 1270018080 4y agoIt's a topic that is beaten to death on HN. Every few weeks a neonazi gets kicked off of a website, and it's just bad faith, poorly framed arguments, and slippery slope fallacies thrown back and forth until it falls of the front page.