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"The government will decide what is safe or not" is an extremely frightening phrase to me when it comes to issues of morality. I recognize the importance of ha
by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
"The government will decide what is safe or not" is an extremely frightening phrase to me when it comes to issues of morality.
I recognize the importance of having the government decide what foods are safe, what industrial byproducts are safe, and so forth when it comes to matters of objective science but when they start policing content like books and websites it starts stepping into some serious authoritarianism...
- johnnyanmac 3y agoyou'd think with various state governments deciding that "gay marriage isn't safe" and some of the more extreme governments deciding that "critical race theory isn't appropriate" (you know, stuff like the entire civil war and why it was fought. "state's rights" my ass. I learned the basis of that in 3rd/4th grade. I learned about MLK in 1st/2nd grade) that we'd be wary of such lines of thought. Games and movies avoid that with self-regulation for a reason. Having the govt. decide what social media is appropriate is outright censorship (and not the kind the gamers love to complain about. Literal government suppression of information).