I don't know why people think repealing this will help things. From the right-wing perspective, where they feverishly imagine they are being censored, it would obviously make twitter/facebook/etc... completely clamp down on anything even vaguely libelous/slanderous/dangerous. It would increase, not decrease, censorship.
From the left wing, they may be happy with less disinformation and "harassment", but they will be sad when their own disinformation and harassment is also blocked.
Censorship is not necessary if the majority of people are capable of critical thinking. For most of my life that was the case. But recently, I have noticed that a great many people have become incapable or unwilling to engage in critical thinking.
What's to be done? I leaned libertarian as a young man and I hate the idea of censorship.
What if putting conspiracy fantasies in front of people who do not think critically is like giving whiskey to an alcoholic? Maybe pushing disinformation and fabrications on non-critical thinkers is like giving car keys to a drunk person?
Oh, I agree. I'm concerned what the Trumptards are going to do. They are riling each other up with more and more bizarre conspiracy theories. We have a huge problem in that low-IQ people (and even some normal or high IQ people with mental illness) are able to find each other and feed off of one another.
I have seen several grunt illiterately online about "If muh Trump says the word I'm ready with muh militia! Say the word, we'll get those Dominion using Kraken stopping pedos, buh gum!!". And this isn't in su
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I don't know why people think repealing this will help things. From the right-wing perspective, where they feverishly imagine they are being censored, it would obviously make twitter/facebook/etc... completely clamp down on anything even vaguely libelous/slanderous/dangerous. It would increase, not decrease, censorship.
From the left wing, they may be happy with less disinformation and "harassment", but they will be sad when their own disinformation and harassment is also blocked.
It also raises a constitutio
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Censorship is not necessary if the majority of people are capable of critical thinking. For most of my life that was the case. But recently, I have noticed that a great many people have become incapable or unwilling to engage in critical thinking.
What's to be done? I leaned libertarian as a young man and I hate the idea of censorship.
What if putting conspiracy fantasies in front of people who do not think critically is like giving whiskey to an alcoholic? Maybe pushing disinformation and fabrications on non-critical thinkers is like giving car keys to a drunk person?
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Oh, I agree. I'm concerned what the Trumptards are going to do. They are riling each other up with more and more bizarre conspiracy theories. We have a huge problem in that low-IQ people (and even some normal or high IQ people with mental illness) are able to find each other and feed off of one another.
I have seen several grunt illiterately online about "If muh Trump says the word I'm ready with muh militia! Say the word, we'll get those Dominion using Kraken stopping pedos, buh gum!!". And this isn't in su
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I can't think of a time in modern history when people had more access to publishing than now.
When could anyone make a video and broadcast it to the world for free before YouTube?
When could anyone gain millions of followers and speak to all of them instantly for free before social media?
Yeah there is censorship, but overall there is far more unfiltered speech nowadays than at any time before.