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Re:62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Af... by benmmurphy on Thursday July 23, 2020 @07:44PM (#23934055)
the problem with censorship is that it only capable of censoring unpopular ideas and unpopular ideas are generally not a problem. the problem ideas are the popular memeplexes that propagate the meme that all opposing ideas should be censored.
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Re:62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Af... by krapp on Thursday July 23, 2020 @08:37PM (#23934392)
>The problem ideas are the popular memeplexes that propagate the meme that all opposing ideas should be censored.

No one is arguing this. This is a strawman position no one actually holds.

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Re:62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Af... by ryathal on Friday July 24, 2020 @04:22PM (#23944014)
The celebration in banning Stormfront, Alex Jones, or The_Donald would indicate otherwise to me.
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Re:62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Af... by JAlexoid on Friday July 24, 2020 @10:55PM (#23946532)
The issue with all of those instances is that the people behind the services - could not stay associated with these elements.

Enforced tolerance is the only thing that is keeping really bad people comfortable at expressing their badness. (Suprisingly - the anti-discrimination applied to private businesses is the reason why people like Alex Jones can safely say whatever he wants and then get a free upgrade at Ramada)

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