▲ | jmyeet 4 days ago | |
Democracies can't survive with unfettered free speech. It's called the Paradox of tolerance [1] or sometimes the Popper paradox (after Karl Popper). I don't know if you've ever seen some of the dark corners of the Internet. This includes 4chan, Kiwi Farms and, well, arguably Twitter at this point. Twitter has really become 4chan. But I digress. We, as a society, are fine with suppressing certain kinds of speech. We always have. We can use CSAM as an obvious counterexample to free speech absolutism. There's no way to reconcile banning that and free speech absolutism. At some point it comes down to deciding certain kinds of expression is simply unacceptable. Now is the UK government using 4chan (etc) as a stalking horse for a wider surveillance state? Almost certainly. We saw a similar thing when Apple wanted to scan all private messages for CSAM. They faced a completely understandable backlash and reversed course. But we don't have to defend 4chan or Kiwi Farms to oppose a surveillance state. | ||
▲ | alt187 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
The Paradox of Tolerance has been first evoked in The Open Society and Its Enemies, and is just as "relevant" as the rest of the book as an handbook for human societies. You should look into it, some time. Besides -- If you don't tolerate intolerance, you're intolerant (of intolerance). So you shouldn't be tolerated. Right? | ||
▲ | sdwr 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Thank you | ||
▲ | vinsend 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
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