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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by arp242 on Friday January 08, 2021 @07:51PM (#25693735)
The idea that every possible opinion should be allowed (and that anything else is "dystopian") is quite recent. Have we forgotten about all the alleged communists being persecuted during the cold war? Or people like Bertrand Russel for "sexual deviancy"? Blasphemy laws? Flag burning laws that were common up to ~20 years ago? etc. etc. etc.

There were definitely problems with all of that, but it was hardly dystopian.

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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by AgentME on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:01PM (#25693976)
Er well I think those are all bad examples -- they all seem pretty dystopian to me, a non-straight atheist with some criticisms of capitalism.

But I think it's a slippery slope to go from seeing that dystopia where some opinions are off-limits to imagining that having any opinions at all be off-limits in polite company makes a dystopia. There's long been norms against stuff like libel, holocaust denial, disregard for human life, etc. Those as norms hardly seem dystopian.

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