Re:YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel
by high_density on Monday January 11, 2021 @10:10AM
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this. Current outright banning and gagging will surely backfire.
The pro-trumps will raise the question: "what are the other-side so afraid of, that they are trying to shut us off?"
So instead of calming them down, it'll actually have the opposite effect - the feeling that the other side is much more evil than imaginable.
And the questions for bystanders will be "If the powers-that-be can snuff that side, what guarantees that I/we won't be snuffed?"
If you see the foundations of democracy, 'Freedom-of-speech' is actually a device to ensure no political party can have dictatorial powers over what the public can know. Moreover, democratic societies are actually more resilient due to these 'room-to-wiggle' - the other option will be much more violent 'revolution' experienced by dictator-states at their end.
Anyway, the other side is producing gibberish, then so be it. Just refute them properly inside a shared platform.
The pro-trumps will raise the question: "what are the other-side so afraid of, that they are trying to shut us off?" So instead of calming them down, it'll actually have the opposite effect - the feeling that the other side is much more evil than imaginable.
And the questions for bystanders will be "If the powers-that-be can snuff that side, what guarantees that I/we won't be snuffed?"
If you see the foundations of democracy, 'Freedom-of-speech' is actually a device to ensure no political party can have dictatorial powers over what the public can know. Moreover, democratic societies are actually more resilient due to these 'room-to-wiggle' - the other option will be much more violent 'revolution' experienced by dictator-states at their end.
Anyway, the other side is producing gibberish, then so be it. Just refute them properly inside a shared platform.