UK government’s plans to regulate the internet are a threat to free speech

Re:UK government’s plans to regulate the internet are a thre... by Hokusai on Thursday September 17, 2020 @11:55AM (#24506196)

> But it just have very unpleasant experience when it was practiced according to its literal sense.

"The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant."

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Re:UK government’s plans to regulate the internet are a thre... by dane-pgp on Thursday September 17, 2020 @03:43PM (#24509078)

There is nothing paradoxical about tolerating all speech but not tolerating any violence. (Both of those are extreme positions, though, which I don't necessarily advocate).

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Re:UK government’s plans to regulate the internet are a thre... by louwrentius on Thursday September 17, 2020 @12:16PM (#24506493)

This is exactly why the religion of free speech is nuts. It is always presented as something total and absolute.

But free speech is not absolute if you want a decent, humane society.

Invoking, hatred, violence, incorrect (medical) advice that can harm people, etc.

You have to walk a thin line, find a balance and that's ok.

Some people can't deal with that kind of ambiguity. They need absolutes.

Fuck them.

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Re:UK government’s plans to regulate the internet are a thre... by msla on Thursday September 17, 2020 @12:36PM (#24506762)

> Fuck them.

Your speech is inciting hatred. Present yourself to the police for immediate relocation to a Reeducation Through Forced Labor Camp.

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