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> Twitter is full of people claiming this or that speech is getting people killed, with absolutely no evidence. There is in fact a fuckton of evidence: https:/
by brazzy 4y ago
> Twitter is full of people claiming this or that speech is getting people killed, with absolutely no evidence.
There is in fact a fuckton of evidence: https://news.yahoo.com/all-25-us-extremism-related-murders-last-year-were-linked-to-right-wing-extremists-212259479.html https://news.yahoo.com/all-25-us-extremism-related-murders-l...
- jimbokun 4y agoI was too unequivocal in my claim, point taken. Clearly there is some speech that makes violence more likely. I still believe that claims of harm and violence are commonly made against speech that is not promoting harm or violence, in an attempt to censor that speech. The proportion of each I don't know, just that I firmly believe both exist.
- brazzy 4y agoI will agree with you on that.
- redeeman 4y agobut what kind of logic would be employed then? by this line of reasoning, what would happen if a group of hardcore communists decided that merely talking about how free markets for AI research is a good thing is something that they cannot tolerate, and begin killing people. Do we now forbid this speech too, as CLEARLY it is getting people killed?