Re:Google 'colluded' with Facebook to bypass Apple privacy
by ch4s3 on Sunday October 24, 2021 @12:36AM
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Who decides that though? You and I may agree today on a particularly egregious claim, but it won’t always be that clear and we won’t always agree.
The problem is that the slope isn’t slippery until someone in power decides to abuse it, then there’s no footing left at all.
There another often overlooked point here. When you cede the ground that there exists speech that should be sanctioned by the state, you are giving a powerful argument to people who stand against pluralism. The troglodytes who shot up the Charlie Hebdo office specifically accused the writers of hate speech. We shouldn’t give ground to people like that. Even abhorrent speech must be free from government sanction or else we allow for state violence to be used to suppress free expression. When we open that door, all manner of vile creatures might push there way through. Within the broad expanse of human beliefs everyone is a heretic open blasphemer to someone.
The problem is that the slope isn’t slippery until someone in power decides to abuse it, then there’s no footing left at all.
There another often overlooked point here. When you cede the ground that there exists speech that should be sanctioned by the state, you are giving a powerful argument to people who stand against pluralism. The troglodytes who shot up the Charlie Hebdo office specifically accused the writers of hate speech. We shouldn’t give ground to people like that. Even abhorrent speech must be free from government sanction or else we allow for state violence to be used to suppress free expression. When we open that door, all manner of vile creatures might push there way through. Within the broad expanse of human beliefs everyone is a heretic open blasphemer to someone.