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I'm kind of with you, specifically on the intolerance of intolerance. But actually making it illegal is worrisome -- because that goes both ways (cue "religiou

I'm kind of with you, specifically on the intolerance of intolerance. But actually making it illegal is worrisome -- because that goes both ways (cue "religious freedom"). The best compromise today seems to be deplatforming, which in a sense is nothing new as we've long had the saying "power of the press belongs to those that own it". The rabid hate speech of the right has done serious damage to the fabric of this country, and it is couched in such a way that making it illegal would be dangerous AF. It bothers me to no end that free speech absolutists that refuse to recognize that some speech should not be amplified.

salawat 4y ago
>power of the press belongs to those that own it The problem is, you're advocating for essentially the weaponization of the middle box. Networking works, because everyone in the middle cooperates to get messages from A to B. No one is wealthy enough to individually backbone their own network connection beyond much more than a local municipality. To hell with that in short. The General Purpose computer combined with desktop publishing and internetworking puts the power of the press in everyone's hands. The problem is, some groups don't agree with other group's use of it, and want to pressure everyone else to cut off unpopular group's access to the technologically facilitated medium. These people are nothing short than the most brazen tyrants of our age, and should be resisted at every turn. We need nothing new to deal with horrible people than for our currently equipped LE edifice to do their damned jobs. We have process. It should be followed. This short circuiting through mob pressure to deplatform is nothing more than pulling the plug on the fundaments of the civilization that bore us to the point we're at.
- pstuart 4y ago
  What exactly do you think I'm advocating for? I'm certainly curious what rules you expect LE to enforce and to whom they would be applied.

salawat 4y ago

>power of the press belongs to those that own it The problem is, you're advocating for essentially the weaponization of the middle box. Networking works, because everyone in the middle cooperates to get messages from A to B. No one is wealthy enough to individually backbone their own network connection beyond much more than a local municipality. To hell with that in short. The General Purpose computer combined with desktop publishing and internetworking puts the power of the press in everyone's hands. The problem is, some groups don't agree with other group's use of it, and want to pressure everyone else to cut off unpopular group's access to the technologically facilitated medium. These people are nothing short than the most brazen tyrants of our age, and should be resisted at every turn. We need nothing new to deal with horrible people than for our currently equipped LE edifice to do their damned jobs. We have process. It should be followed. This short circuiting through mob pressure to deplatform is nothing more than pulling the plug on the fundaments of the civilization that bore us to the point we're at.

pstuart 4y ago
What exactly do you think I'm advocating for? I'm certainly curious what rules you expect LE to enforce and to whom they would be applied.