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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by curiousgeorgio on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @01:45PM (#25362366)
> We've got to this place because the people with wrong ideas were succeding.

Hate to break it to you, but if those ideas are succeeding, maybe they weren't wrong after all...

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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by kibwen on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @01:59PM (#25362715)
The marketplace of ideas can remain irrational longer than free society can remain solvent.
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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by kube-system on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @01:53PM (#25362557)
History is full of people with very clearly wrong ideas who were succeeding at the time. Something something, Godwin's law.
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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by curiousgeorgio on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @01:58PM (#25362671)
History is more full of examples where censorship has lead to tyranny and the downfall of civilizations.
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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by kube-system on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @02:08PM (#25362897)
Government censorship, yes. Fortunately, that is not happening here.
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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by epakai on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @02:23PM (#25363182)
Godwin's law, but Hitler succeeded for a very long time in the decade before WW2. This isn't a useful metric for determining whether ideas are right or wrong.
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