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Re:The media's lab leak fiasco by tomjen3 on Thursday May 27, 2021 @05:01PM (#27308500)
That assumes a binary situation, but it can be a sliding scale.

A system that prevents only Holocaust denial and flat earth theories is unlikely to ban anything that is actually true.

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Re:The media's lab leak fiasco by generalizations on Thursday May 27, 2021 @05:25PM (#27308752)
The current situation was justified with examples like yours.

A year ago, most people in favor of banning misinformation would have classed the lab leak hypothesis in the same obviously-false bucket with your examples.

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Re:The media's lab leak fiasco by andybak on Friday May 28, 2021 @05:44AM (#27313404)
Slippery slope fallacy?
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Re:The media's lab leak fiasco by 55555 on Thursday May 27, 2021 @11:08PM (#27311321)
Even “Holocaust denial” exists on a spectrum.
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