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There's a difference between walking away & taping someone's mouth at the table. Walking away is freedom of association. Taping someone's mouth is censorship &
by briantakita 4y ago
There's a difference between walking away & taping someone's mouth at the table. Walking away is freedom of association. Taping someone's mouth is censorship & a forced imposition or outright violence against a person.
- klyrs 4y agoIs there a rash of mouth taping that I'm unaware of?
- kelseyfrog 4y agoParent is trying to draw a parallel between mouth taping and censorship. The problem is that lunchroom scenarios aren't cleanly isomorphic to online scenarios.
- klyrs 4y agoOkay. Let's say you like to share details of your bathroom escapades on a forum dedicated to 3d printing. The admins give you a few warnings and eventually kick you off, because nobody wants to hear that. I daresay that isn't "violence." It's still an exercise of free association where the forum moderators have decided your speech is "not good" despite being perfectly legal.
- kelseyfrog 4y agoThe argument, as I understand it, is that disabling someone's ability to do speech is categorically censorship.
- klyrs 4y agoSure, call it censorship. I maintain that it's legally permissible to ban shit-posters for misconduct. I'd further argue that failing to ban shit-posters will dissuade 3d printing enthusiasts from using a particular forum, granting the shit-posters a heckler's veto which is its own form of censorship.
- gadders 4y agoHow about murdering? See Charlie Hebdo, Samuel Paty etc.