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What are the principles governing the exceptions you listed (slander, doxxing, incitement)?

• ronsor 1y ago
  1. Direct, obvious harm beyond "my feelings were upset." 2. Actually, this isn't illegal in a lot of places. 3. Direct, obvious harm beyond "my feelings were upset."
  • sergiogjr 1y ago
    Should we ever consider broad societal harm, or just focus on individual harm? It's to me just short sighted to only consider the later.
  • Grustaf 1y ago
    Do you actually believe that the issue with porn is that it "upsets people's feelings"?
• advael 1y ago
  Mostly the principle that direct, tangible, and irreparable harm is being done by the speech. I called these "hairy" exactly because they are less clear-cut than most cases. The line between satire or speculation and slander, for example, can be kind of notoriously hard to draw, many "doxxing" incidents mostly involve finding already-public information, and incitement to violence is pretty difficult to demonstrate in a satisfying way The reason I bring up these examples is that they are what I consider the edge cases of freedom of expression. There are genuinely difficult tradeoffs between values, but allowing stuff that bothers some people to be published is not one of them