Re:Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules
by ceejayoz on Saturday December 11, 2021 @10:25AM
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It's not OK to choose not to hang out with someone because you've heard they did something shitty?
Re:Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules
by kodah on Saturday December 11, 2021 @10:41AM
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You can absolutely make a personal choice. The moment that you start tricking yourself into thinking that narrative manipulation, harassment, trolling, stalking, etc to get others to make that same personal choice are part of some high moral stance is what people get angry at cancel culture about. There is quite a distinction.
Re:Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules
by ceejayoz on Saturday December 11, 2021 @11:00AM
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I can’t use my free speech to encourage someone to make the same choice?
Trying to conflate “cancel culture” with the already-illegal concepts of stalking and harassment is disingenuous. Trolling and “narrative manipulation” are pretty clear protected free expression.
Re:Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules
by kodah on Saturday December 11, 2021 @11:07AM
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I don't really get your point about free speech. That's a government protection. What I am talking about is the tendency of mobs to act as conduits of misinformation and abuse while projecting some form of morality en masse. It teeters on being more harmful than the thing they're mobbing about, typically.
Personally, I don't care that it's age old. It's still not okay, and I don't care whether it's better or worse in modern times. I'm not even sure how far outside of propaganda some of this stuff falls, which ironically has the opposite reception from the public.