Free Speech is not an unmixed blessing

[Swammerdami]

Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine agrees with me! (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/magazine/free-speech.html)

The article is too good to excerpt; please read it yourselves.

[C2H5OH]

paywalled. can't read it.

[Swammerdami]

Clear nytimes cookies, disable Javascript, or simply fire up an alternate browser. I think any of these should work.

[Iori_Yagami]

This is kinda scary. I am lost about what to say. The most interesting part is who's going to check the censors themselves? This totally should be taken to a referendum or something. On one hand, you have disgusting hate preachers, on the other - potentially thought-policing practices, which tend to become more warped with time, and more and more things are on the thoughtcrime list, until the censors themselves become the dictators. :eek: