Why We Don't have Enough Free Speech on the Internet

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• wigglehard@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Thick skin is the best skin~ buffalo bill

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• iamtanmay@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Yes. 1st Amendment made America the exceptional, shining beacon of liberty.

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• sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Hatred and intolerance wrapped in a fuzzy blanket is exactly part of the problem. "I'm so good and everyone else is so evil that I dont need to treat the other as human beings because if they were human beings they'd be more like me"

  Frankly, it drives intolerance. When I see someone saying something interesting usually I follow them, but if I see pronouns I usually don't -- not because I have problems with trans people or liberals (I've followed both) but because pronouns advertise that mentality that always seems to end in authoritarianism against any and all opinions not marching in lockstep with their utopian Reich.

  I'm sure there's right wingers who do the same, I grew up hating right wing nanny staters who wanted my tv shows, my movies, my music, my video games banned and they're no better. They must hang out somewhere else -- maybe Facebook or parler or something. The folks I see call you a name and move on with their day, the way things should be.

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• masterofballs@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Everything is about her and the conversation she wants to have.

  I hope she reads it.

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• squashkin@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I like the idea of "freer" speech

  So, "absolute free speech" would be no restrictions.

  But then there are things like defamation that are illegal.

  So then people will say "free speech with legal restrictions", and will object to restrictions beyond that.

  So then I guess you could make a list of those kinds of restrictions that exist and debate about if they should be removed or not.

  But from one place to a freer place, would be "freer speech". Like there are many things that can be said in the U.S. that can't be said in North Korea. So the U.S. has "freer" speech.

  I think it's important to not lose sight of how there are some good liberties which may have been safeguarded over time which have been threatened at other times in other places.

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  • sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Yes, in the graysonian ethic I explicitly talk about this. All rights exist in a space where rights can bump up against other rights and your rights can pop up against my rights, so as much as 2009 me would really prefer taking an absolute stance, and that's not really practical. By their nature, some rights are mutually exclusive and you need to choose how you're going to balance them out. If you don't, you won't be able to protect people's rights because they will use their rights to attack your rights.

    All that being said, I tend much further on the spectrum towards Free speech than not. I don't have any right not to be offended by things I see. On the other hand, there are certain ways of exercising someone else's right to speak that will likely end up with my entire social media Network being taken down. So I'm definitely not about to sit back and apologize for protecting myself.

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