Re:Where Online Hate Speech Can Bring the Police to Your Door
by kube-system on Sunday October 09, 2022 @05:13PM
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It does very much depend on how you define “continuous” and “democracy”.
That aside, I think there is enough evidence that restricting political speech in a democracy kind of defeats the point and it disenfranchises people. Some counter this by saying “well we only want to ban the extreme speech”, but I’d argue those are exactly the people who are likely to take up pitchforks first.
A right to only “moderate” political speech doesn’t make any sense. Moderate speech isn’t a target of censorship.
That aside, I think there is enough evidence that restricting political speech in a democracy kind of defeats the point and it disenfranchises people. Some counter this by saying “well we only want to ban the extreme speech”, but I’d argue those are exactly the people who are likely to take up pitchforks first.
A right to only “moderate” political speech doesn’t make any sense. Moderate speech isn’t a target of censorship.