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What if the censors seek a narrative first, are not moved by factual information, dismiss dissenters as being brainwashed?
by amadeuspagel 4y ago
What if the censors seek a narrative first, are not moved by factual information, dismiss dissenters as being brainwashed?
- themitigating 4y agoThen they are bad at their job. What if the police abuse their power, well then I guess we shouldn't have any.
- amadeuspagel 4y ago> What if the police abuse their power Then people are free to speak out against it. But if they weren't, that question would indeed be unanswerable.
- themitigating 4y agoYou're implying that the "censors" would censor without limits, including complaints about them.
- amadeuspagel 4y agoYes that seems a reasonable concern. Indeed it's hard to censor something without censoring complaints about censoring that thing, unless these complaints are entirely on free speech grounds. But if we already don't believe in free speech anymore, then we would have to interpret a complaint about censoring something as an endorsement of that thing, and hence censor the complaint as well.
- themitigating 4y agoThis is all hypothetical though since there aren't censors
- raxxorraxor 4y agoSo in the end you agree that there shouldn't be any as well?