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Re:PewDiePie’s Battle for the Soul of the Internet by AnthonyMouse on Sunday December 23, 2018 @11:50PM (#18750405)
That it's all the same methods is the issue. Honing a censorship apparatus on random people is how it becomes sharp enough to do real damage.

When you find a tiger loose in a city, the response should be to do what it takes to get it off the streets, not that we should be thankful that everything is fine because so far it has only been hunting puppies.

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Re:PewDiePie’s Battle for the Soul of the Internet by darkpuma on Monday December 24, 2018 @03:11PM (#18754028)
> "That it's all the same methods is the issue."

Only if you're abstracting away the value of real human lives. If a tiger breaks loose you should be concerned by that tiger but ALSO be thankful that nobody has been eaten by it. If you forget the later, you forget your humanity.

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