Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service
by latexr on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @06:47AM
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> I've generally been on the free speech side of this debate, as some of my previous comments on HN will show.
> With 8chan, I legitimately don't know what my opinion is.
You can support free speech and still condemn 8chan, by considering Karl Popper’s Paradox of Tolerance[1]. If a person or group enacts violence on another person or group because of their ideas, the elements of the latter will curb their speech out of fear.
Violent groups use “free speech” as an excuse because it works. They’re only interested in free speech for themselves, not others. In fact, they’re so incapable of tolerating the free speech of others that they resort to killing them.
> With 8chan, I legitimately don't know what my opinion is.
You can support free speech and still condemn 8chan, by considering Karl Popper’s Paradox of Tolerance[1]. If a person or group enacts violence on another person or group because of their ideas, the elements of the latter will curb their speech out of fear.
Violent groups use “free speech” as an excuse because it works. They’re only interested in free speech for themselves, not others. In fact, they’re so incapable of tolerating the free speech of others that they resort to killing them.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance