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> I find their content …dangerous even as satire This is precisely why we need strong protections for satirists from those who are so insecure in their positio
by nyokodo 4y ago
> I find their content …dangerous even as satire
This is precisely why we need strong protections for satirists from those who are so insecure in their positions and beliefs that they respond to satire like it’s threatening.
- isleyaardvark 4y agoBoth satire and free speech in general can be dangerous. edit: I don’t understand why people are downvoting a simple statement of undeniable fact. Do I need to mention that doesn’t mean I am in favor of government intervention?
- refurb 4y agoExactly. No different than "picking quarrels and provoking trouble".
- revolvingocelot 4y agoIf anyone is interested in what that means, it appears to be China's version of "resisting arrest" and "assaulting an officer": a spurious, ill-defined charge with which the inconvenient could be bludgeoned. What the parent comment means by referencing this phenomenon, which already has an Occidental analogue, is still unclear to me.
- refurb 4y agoIt's basically China's version of "free speech is dangerous". Whenever someone starts saying things the CCP doesn't like, they are "fomenting dissent". What people don't get is if you want to start censoring "dangerous speech" then you'd better have a perfect definition of what dangerous speech is. But there isn't one. So what ends up happening is you ban speech with good reason, set a precedent, then your political opponent takes power and starts banning speech as well.
- s1artibartfast 4y agoI'll provide the counterpoint and say satire and speech are not dangerous. Nobody is directly hurt by it. It can be involved in a causal chain that leads to harm, but so can everything. If you contend that speech is dangerous because it can lead to harm, then language itself is dangerous because it can lead to speech. For that matter air is dangerous, because it facilitates language.
- dqft 4y agoNow that no one is talking we can save the environment for reals this time!
- ben_w 4y agoI value freedom of speech in general for the exact same reason that I don't endorse the absolutist position of supporting it always: Speech is powerful, and it can cause great changes to the world. But, while all improvements are changes, so too are all diminutions.