Senate Bill to Ban TikTok

Re:Senate Bill to Ban TikTok by goatlover on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @05:08PM (#35363676)

> Censorship is a tool. A tool best used rarely, maybe only a few times a century. But I unfortunately think we're coming to the point where we need to start using it within this decade or so. And no, not for the stupid AP African American class crap. I mean for the part that matters right now, the China-Taiwan conflict that is obviously brewing up.

How about the Red Scare or Huckleberry Finn? Problem with censorship as a tool is that it will be abused. What makes you so sure that the party censoring AP African American studies won't be back in power next?

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Re:Senate Bill to Ban TikTok by dragontamer on Thursday March 30, 2023 @02:30AM (#35368844)

There's plenty of evils available to the US Government today. As some people like to point out, a government is an entity that has monopolized violence, which is an arrangement that's largely to the benefit of society (at least, in the cases where it is used correctly).

Execution, jailings, regulations, etc. etc. Plenty of ways for the government to be abused. Its inevitable that we give the government power to do what is necessary in society, whatever it is. Censorship is just one more power that the US Government has toyed with from time to time over the centuries.

To prevent abuse, we need to elect the right people to be our leaders, and the ones who wield that power.

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