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For several centuries "trade" with the third world has essentially meant theft and imperialism, so to answer your question, yes.

When you are a content creator, you create ONE copy. This does not entitle you to ANY other copies.

Copying is not theft, but copyright sure is.

Because communism isn't more dangerous than Fascism

LMAO what a fucking strawman. At least try to not be disingenuous from the get go

It is two thousand and sixteen in the year of our Lord. Redbaiting doesn't work any more; McCarthy is death. Screaming "BUT WILL SOMEONE JUST THINK ABOUT THE VILE, VILE COMMUNISTS?" at every turn to suppress dissent no longer works. It is an evasionist tactic.

1. Please prove he pointed a gun at them. 2. People literally called the cops TO his location in the first place because he was sitting on a park bench eating. What is wrong with this picture? 3. He was shot 40 times. What is wrong with this picture? 4. The cop immediately called his union rep before an ambulance. What is wrong with this picture?

It's not about "might." That's like saying the sun "might" set, or the tide "might" recede. Worms like Moldbug have a 100% historical record of mutating into terribly destructive individuals when given even the slightest leeway. On the other hand, tolerating them has a zero percent success rate. Zero! Never, not once, in history have Fascists been beaten by anything by the usual liberal, democratic means of discourse and praxis.

And again, not all opinions are equal. The opinion "we should noplatform gays" and "we should noplatform Fascists" aren't remotely in the same world just because they share the same first three words.

Imagine if we applied this argument to other facets of life! Imagine if people thought doctors were as bad as cancer because they tried to poison cancer cells. Imagine if people thought the Jews who rose up in the Warsaw ghetto and murdered Nazis were as bad as the Nazis themselves!

Also LMAO it's not a risk for everyone. It isn't a risk at all for the usually affluent/usually white liberals that usually stand in the way of noplatforming people like Moldbug. It IS a risk for people of color, women, the disenfranchised, etc. It is facile for someone to say "well that's a risk we have to take" when it's hardly a risk to you at all. Of course politicians use this logic all the time to justify the mass slaughter of civilians abroad. "Well, it might result in collateral ~~murder~~ damage, but that's just a risk we'll have to take."

Again, this presupposes that all thoughts are equal. They are not. This should be a trivial distinction for a hacker to make.

It is also particularly interesting you are talking about groups of people, when this discussion was about Moldbug. That Moldbug holds sociopathic opinions is at this point simply a matter of public record. Anyone with an internet connection can confirm this.

1. The political compass is oversimplified and not taken seriously by political scientists 2. This has nothing to do with his argument. In the US, surveillance is largely the product of moral panics, primarily 1. The red scare 2. The race scare 3. The drug scare, which itself is really just a synthesis of 1 and 2; the drug war was essentially invented to attack black and Latino communities as well as anti government "subversives." Maybe that's not true in EVERY state that has used mass surveillance, but it is true in the specific case of the US.

Assuming they actually want to talk to us.

You're misunderstanding the Doomsday argument. There is no cap, nor does humanity have to disappear overnight. In fact it makes no claims about how humans will go extinct.

1. Do you think people like Hitler just arise out of the sea one day, like Aphrodite, completely unbidden? No. Worms like Moldbug lay the path for the actually physically dangerous people to rise up.

2. I'm not gonna get bogged down in a nomenclature debate. We both agree he's a terrible person; that's enough for my argument to work.

3. This would only be true if this were the ONLY factor for the diversity problem (there are others)

Your code of grace is also not universal and is almost certainly the minority.

No one is obligated to like you or associate with you, doubly so if you have political beliefs that would likely result in their slavery.

Community sanctions are part of what it means to be human.

Again, not all views are equal. Stop trying to pretend they are.

I gotta say, this is some next-level red baiting.

Please provide evidence he pointed the taser at them.

There is an extremely simple test for such arguments: would anyone make this argument if the person in question was Osama bin Laden? Suppose old Osama was a Haskell wizard. Would anyone argue he should still be at the talk? No.

But Nazis? Who make bin Laden's terrorism look like a rounding error? They're A-OK!

And people wonder about why there's a diversity problem in tech.

Yes, I am perfectly okay with discriminating against Nazis.

Since when is ALL discrimination bad? I discriminate against shitty people all the time, and so do you. Don't even pretend you don't, no one will believe you.

All life is political. Sorry that hurts your feelings.

Not all views are equal. Some views are so horrendous it is our moral duty to ostracize their believers.