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Re:UK ditches ban on 'legal but harmful' online content in f... by dale_glass on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @07:19AM (#33786608)
I'm not convinced humanity is equipped to deal with what social media is capable of unleashing.

Yeah, most people can take being told they're an idiot by a person or a few. Social media on the other hand allows some coincidence or celebrity to make you basically front page news, and get you called an idiot by hundreds of thousands of people.

I think very few people are equipped to deal with something like that.

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Re:UK ditches ban on 'legal but harmful' online content in f... by sirsinsalot on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @07:44AM (#33786882)
And society shouldn't be deprived the coordination that free speech allows because people can't handle that.

The core problem is critical thinking and emotional literacy education at large, not a need to curtail free speech to avoid offense.

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