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This feels more like a personal attack than a response to the argument made.

• SturgeonsLaw 3y ago
  It's does, but as someone who is staunchly anti-censorship, I understand the frustration. There are sharks out there who want to control speech for their own ends - governments seeking to control populations, corporations wanting docile consumers, hostile nations wishing to stir dissent, individuals trying to cover up their misdeeds, and enabling censorship helps those hostile parties achieve their ends. In this worldview, regular people who say a variation of "censorship is good, actually" are perhaps seen as useful idiots. A better approach would be building up the critical thinking skills of the population so they can better process information, however that transfers a measure of power to the people and is a multigenerational investment, and removes a justification for censorship, which is politically unappealing.
  • nonrandomstring 3y ago
    > better approach would be building up the critical thinking skills of the population The term for that is "Intellectual self-defence" > transfers a measure of power to the people and is a multigenerational investment The challenge to that literacy comes not from power riding on censorship, but from the people themselves who are now conditioned into an apathetic need for "convenience". Critical thinking is hard work, and is never rewarded except in the long run. Also, anti-censorship absolutism must be tempered with what we call "information hazards". Some of these are genuine, although admittedly very rare, such as easy instructions to create nuclear weapons or synthesise a deadly virus. There are just too many idiots in the world not to want to put a brake on that stuff.