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Why is it on Hacker news when a "Twitter" topic comes up we get a bunch of people pontificating as "free speech maximalists" but when a journalism topic comes u
by staticman2 3y ago
Why is it on Hacker news when a "Twitter" topic comes up we get a bunch of people pontificating as "free speech maximalists" but when a journalism topic comes up people can call journalism "doxxing" without the "free speech maximalists" making an appearence and scolding them on the evils of censorship?
- pjc50 3y agoNote which topics the free speech maximalists do and do not defend.
- blueflow 3y agoI think this is a strawman. Twitter is not attacked for prohibiting doxxes, right?
- staticman2 3y agoI would have thought a "free speech maximalists" would have a lot to say about every free speech topic, since they are apparently so passionate about free speech. Is using the neologism "doxxing", a term with a negative connotion, to describe journalism in line with their "maximalist" committment to free speech, for example? Is this conversation about a journalist not an opportunity to remind us Voltaire said “I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
- pixl97 3y agoTINSTAAFSM At the end of the day "maximal" isn't near as far in the max directory as people reading the statement expect.
- ogurechny 3y agoThis is not about what is allowed and what is prohibited. It is about how we call the thing.