Re:Mark Zuckerberg is on the wrong side of history
by uniqueid on Monday September 28, 2020 @01:40PM
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Once the social taboo against violating the right
to free speech is broken, dystopia becomes a possibility
Re:Mark Zuckerberg is on the wrong side of history
by CryptoPunk on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @03:01AM
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The types of limits on free speech being proposed here go far beyond the traditional limits imposed in the Anglo sphere on speech.
The types of censorship proposed in the article deal with expressing beliefs pertaining to highly complex and contentious social issues about which powerful special interests seek to shape the public's perceptions about. Once this class of speech becomes acceptable to subject to censorship, politics becomes a much more dangerous, winner-takes-all game.
Far more than 200,000 people can die in one year if we set up an apparatus of censorship, as these tools could always be commandeered by corrupt individuals and used to horrific effect.
Look at autocratic societies around the world, and see what giving any group, no matter how seemingly altruistic and enlightened, the power to censor, can lead to.
Once the social taboo against violating the right to free speech is broken, dystopia becomes a possibility, as it becomes possible for voices to be silenced and concentrations of power to magnify their control through constricting the flow of critical information.