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A comment on Ask HN: Is censoring dissenting opinions about the lockdown a bad idea?.

Re:Ask HN: Is censoring dissenting opinions about the lockdo... by ThrowawayR2 on Sunday May 03, 2020 @11:48AM (#23059722)
If it were political censorship, that might be something to discuss but infectious diseases can spread to people regardless of what their politics are. Reality trumps beliefs every time.
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Re:Ask HN: Is censoring dissenting opinions about the lockdo... by 10kresistor on Sunday May 03, 2020 @01:17PM (#23060379)
Are they not preventing the right of individuals to organize?
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Re:Ask HN: Is censoring dissenting opinions about the lockdo... by ThrowawayR2 on Sunday May 03, 2020 @01:28PM (#23060472)
Public safety of innocent third-parties trumps the right of individuals to organize.

Were the disease only to sicken those who congregated and not spread from them, I would have very little objection to allowing them to do so.

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