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Seems like everyone needs to go back and read Mill's "On Liberty" again. Social pressure to silence speech is not prohibited, but we should seriously question t
by hyperion2010 13y ago
Seems like everyone needs to go back and read Mill's "On Liberty" again. Social pressure to silence speech is not prohibited, but we should seriously question the state of our society if it happens. Silencing someone rather than meeting them in open debate (or stating that you will not give them credibility by responding to them) is a sign that something has gone horribly wrong.
- justintocci 13y agoI would add that having someone fired because they signed the wrong petition is wrong. Making someone resign because they gave a donation to the wrong political party is wrong. Excluding someone from a forum for having the wrong opinion is wrong. I honestly don't agree with most of the stuff I read on this page and I really don't understand where a lot of you are coming from at all. I could certainly understand expelling someone from a forum for being a nusance, or breaking the rules, but not for being 'wrong'. I certainly wouldn't exclude someone from my social network for having values that contradict my own. I shudder to think where I would be if everyone excluded me years ago because I wasn't yet who I am now.
- jessaustin 13y agoYes, after it becomes normal to silence "unapproved" speech through private means, it won't be long until we see suggestions for the same to be done by the government.