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"So this is how liberty dies... with thundering applause." The amount of people defending these laws in this thread is a frightening proof of this. Everywhere
by sph 4y ago
"So this is how liberty dies... with thundering applause."
The amount of people defending these laws in this thread is a frightening proof of this.
Everywhere these days you can find someone smart and utterly naive with their "but actually..." argument pushing the Overton window closer and closer to a censorship state, and there are not enough neutral people arguing for free speech itself. Only the weirdos and racist ones which are easy to hate and root against.
So all this playing Devil's advocate is actually helping along the normalization of these free speech bans.
https://youtu.be/BiqDZlAZygU https://youtu.be/BiqDZlAZygU
- uvnq 4y agoThe Overton window will go further than that due to the beliefs of the ideologues pushing to remove "hate speech". They believe that hate speech is literal violence and genocide, as bad as murder or mass murder. I posted a comment warning that this anti-hate-speech legislation may go further as time goes by, towards killing of people, and even further from there, and got 1 comment supportint the "violent removal of bigots from society". These people believe you are committing genocide with your words, why wouldn't we expect them to act as if they actually are preventing genocide? Here is the comment, before they change or delete it: Tanjreeve 8 hours ago | parent | next [–] Society might be a fair amount improved if we had a strategy where we aimed to remove bigots, violently if necessary. What value do they actually bring? (At the time of me posting this comment, the only replies were the one above and another supporting hate speech laws and citing a common anti free speech strawman along the lines of "you are wrong that your free speech does not mean freedom from consequences")