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Re:The Most Dangerous Censorship by robocat on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @08:08PM (#27599064)
The point is that the social consequences of a comment can be catastrophic. There is the potential to lose your job, lose your friends, lose your family. Even if your opinion was just miswritten, misunderstood, misquoted, outdated, or immature one can be attacked for seemingly random reasons.

Read some of the commentary on this thread, and note some of the well written examples that counter your comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27581532

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Re:The Most Dangerous Censorship by hsod on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @01:35AM (#27601108)
But don’t your friends and family have a right to come to their own conclusions about you? Maybe they learned something new about you and don’t like you anymore. maybe that’s unfair, you feel you’ve been mis*. But lots of things are unfair. Lots of people are misunderstood all the time. There is no affirmative right to have your coworkers at happy hour find you charming. Why should there be one for online discourse?
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