Ask HN: What is your strongest contrarian opinion?

Re:Ask HN: What is your strongest contrarian opinion? by duped on Friday September 17, 2021 @03:38PM (#28570042)

Freedom of speech is problematic. The spread of covid misinformation today is as bad as shouting "fire" in a crowded theater and the people doing it on social media or in public should be held criminally culpable.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your strongest contrarian opinion? by mikewarot on Friday September 17, 2021 @07:41PM (#28572115)

Had the public health authorities not burned through their credibility in the past, there wouldn't be a massive issue with non-authoritative views.

It didn't help that they changed stories multiple times for dubious reasons.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your strongest contrarian opinion? by version_five on Friday September 17, 2021 @06:16PM (#28571523)

This is a mainstream view

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Re:Ask HN: What is your strongest contrarian opinion? by AnnoyedComment on Friday September 17, 2021 @03:57PM (#28570237)

Shouting fire in a theater is protected speech.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your strongest contrarian opinion? by armchairhacker on Friday September 17, 2021 @05:31PM (#28571140)

I agree, except the issue with banning speech is that there’s no fine line. When does “covid misinformation” go from conspiracy theories (5G microchips) to skepticism (“does [X measure] really slow the spread”) to hard truths (the vaccine does cause adverse side effects in a small subset of the population).

I have no problem censoring blatant misinformation, but i’d rather be more tolerant than censor something that might be true or modest.

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