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If your version of free speech means allowing anything to be said anywhere, I don't want it. The principle of free speech I subscribe to is allowing anyone a pl
by Veedrac 11y ago
If your version of free speech means allowing anything to be said anywhere, I don't want it. The principle of free speech I subscribe to is allowing anyone a place such that those who want to listen, can. In essence, to prevent one party silencing a communication between two other parties. Reddit need not be that place.
- dmfdmf 11y agoCan you elaborate? Its not clear to me where we disagree, if at all.
- geomark 11y agoThat's a good definition. But even that approach will fail when those with power define the "place such that those who want to listen, can" to be so small that nobody can find it. An example is the so-called free speech zones at some colleges that are small designated spots far from earshot of the entire campus population.
- ketralnis 11y ago> that approach will fail when those with power define the "place such that those who want to listen, can" to be so small that nobody can find it Okay. But reddit isn't "those with power". reddit isn't making it illegal to do it elsewhere.
- geomark 11y agoAgree. I was speaking more in general rather than specifically about reddit.
- crdoconnor 11y ago>Reddit need not be that place. Nope, but then again, being that place is what made it grow so large in the first place.