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Re:Silicon Valley is shutting down speech loopholes. Latest ... by diggernet on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @01:05AM (#25924840)
> ... answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols.

The real paradox of the paradox of tolerance is how many people use Popper quotes to rationalize their own intolerance for people with differing ideas, without any awareness that Popper was speaking only of intolerance for people who resort to violence.

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Re:Silicon Valley is shutting down speech loopholes. Latest ... by xyzzyz on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @01:08AM (#25924862)
Yes. It's as if people want to just use name of famous philosopher to justify their urge to censor people and ideas they don't like.
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