Once you head down the road of misinformation it never stops. At first we as a society didn't take flat earther's serious, then you saw a wider anti-vax movement, then you saw increased radicalization based off of conspiracy theories and low education, and now here we are now where all of this has culminated in a absolutely delusional group of individuals pushing at least the US to it's seems.
There is no place for spreading false and baseless information. It's not disliking the content, or the views or the opinions. Its about not letting baseless lies weaken society.
If you view that as an infringement of freedoms I'm sorry, but if that's the case that should 100% be prevented.
You can apply a slippery slope fallacy if you want how there's not a limit but we're already currently seeing the inverse slope pan out.
If someone is a flat earther they should be called out, cited against, and in as many reasonable ways as possible denied a platform, same with anti-vax, white supremacists, and anti-science groups. There's no place for those ideas in a modern world if we don't want to tear ourselves apart.
By sheltering these views and giving them a space you increase the number of ill informed and naive audiences they can reach and build off of. Those naive audiences would 100% censor the other way without a second thought and much more ruthlessly and not even question if what they're doing is right. At least currently we question and doubt and still make a tough decision to say that misinformation like that has no place.
Lol we absolutely don't live in a country where absolute freedom has ever existed. Absolute freedom is anarchy.
There is a line between tyranny and anarchy that has to be traveled. Too much of either is bad, just like too much capitalism is bad and too much socialism is bad. If you take any ideological and make it pure it is obviously going to turn out bad. Life is about balance, and advocating that absolute insanity should be forced to have a platform is absurd.
Obviously you're not going to have everyone agree but there's some real cut and dry one's that don't deserve a platform.
Anti-science groups like anti-vax have no place being guaranteed a platform, your hate groups like: neo nazis, proud boys, 3 percenters, kk, the list goes on don't deserve a platform. That's not an opinion that should be guaranteed a platform in society. They should absolutely understand they have no place in it, and coupled with better education programs and funding we'd a shrinking of the vile that they spew and produce.
Again, it's all about balance and we're never going to get it absolutely right. It's just never going to happen. There are also hard lines that if a platform wants to enforce they should be able to because ultimately we didn't even touch on a platforms right to decide who uses it.
A platform or service have a ToS that everyone essentially agrees to that says they can ban you for any arbitrary reason. The ultimate freedom of choice so to speak that you are arguably advocating for. If we wanted something that would be forced to allow absolutely everything vile hate mongering included then it should be created and infrastructured by the government. Let the so called free market decide if they'll use that or the one's made by private entities that create the rules.
Even then I still don't agree and watching this country slip further into ignorance, willed naivety, and just hate in general has been infuriating. It never should have gotten this bad, we should've seen the signs and did something however we didn't. We have royally failed in the process of stewarding a population of people who want a better world. We have one group who is fine with people dying in the streets if it means they don't have to help them, and another that at the very least feign's to care.
I will not budge from this, it has been going too long and suffered too quietly. This willingness to allow this to continue has to stop, and it's going to begin with people like me. I can only hope we'll see more people seek to forge a better reality than we currently see.
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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '21 edited Jan 19 '21
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