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Re:Frustrated with Parler deplatforming, I am building a ser... by jimbob45 on Sunday February 21, 2021 @07:55PM (#26219196)
Every piece of speech is intolerant to someone out there. The mistake is thinking that any bit of speech is empirically tolerant or intolerant.
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Re:Frustrated with Parler deplatforming, I am building a ser... by haram_masala on Sunday February 21, 2021 @08:00PM (#26219253)
This is an interesting line of thought, which I don't know if I agree with or not. It might be worth exploring the contrapositive: "If a piece of speech is tolerable to at least someone, then it shouldn't be censored."

And that raises an absurd but still interesting thought experiment: if by some process, someone is able to create a statement that is intolerable to every single person on Earth, would it be okay to censor it?

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