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> You call that censorship but we know that allowing hate to be spewed unconditionally is itself a form of silencing others. How is that? And who are we?
by thesz 2y ago
> You call that censorship but we know that allowing hate to be spewed unconditionally is itself a form of silencing others.
How is that? And who are we?
- latexr 2y ago> How is that? Does it need explaining that when someone regularly harasses and threatens someone else (or a group), the target won’t feel safe and will refrain from speaking freely out of fear? Has everyone already forgotten the harassment, bomb threats, and doxxing from GamerGate, to name a single example? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_(harassment_campaign) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_(harassment_campaign... It takes but a sliver of empathy to understand that can negatively affect someone. I expected the previous wikipedia link to have been enough to make the concept clear intellectually, but evidently I was wrong. > And who are we? The world. The United Nations. Anyone who has been at the receiving end of hate speech. Their friends. People who don’t live in a closed safe bubble, unaware of the problems of others. https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/01/1132597 https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/01/1132597 This is not hard to search for.