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I would venture that it is not that your opinion has changed but that the fabric of people engaging online has changed. Free speech absolutism worked 20 years
by DoingIsLearning 4y ago
I would venture that it is not that your opinion has changed but that the fabric of people engaging online has changed.
Free speech absolutism worked 20 years ago when you just hosted a PHP message board on a server in Iceland or Romania and a few hundreds of curious people got together around a specific topic or hobby.
The problem now is 1) the volume of people online. 2) the normal distribution of people online (no longer just the curious one).
edit: no obvious solution though.
- int_19h 4y agoThe solution is the same as it was 20 years ago: let people hang out in a place that moderates according to their preferences. It's not like everything on the Net was uncensored 20 years ago, after all. It's that it wasn't so centralized, and you could easily find unmoderated places if you wanted - they weren't actively pursued to force them to shut down.