I think as long as people are allowed to face the consequences of their speech, it is a self balancing system. I should be able to say black lives matter and Nazis should have to face the the community for saying they dont.
The issue is when the system protects the Nazis and labels “woke” language as wrongthink
If section 230 gets rewritten, the open internet is gone. When companies self censor in fear of the government, that’s a different form of government censorship.
Look at this list of banned words, and tell me you think it would be good for the government to censor the internet.
The benefits to society of free speech are really only realized if people who have incorrect/offensive/unpopular perspectives on important issues are able to express them without severe enough consequences that they choose not to out of fear. That could include community reaction, depending on what it is.
I think as long as people are allowed to face the consequences of their speech, it is a self balancing system. I should be able to say black lives matter and Nazis should have to face the the community for saying they dont.
The issue is when the system protects the Nazis and labels “woke” language as wrongthink
If section 230 gets rewritten, the open internet is gone. When companies self censor in fear of the government, that’s a different form of government censorship.
Look at this list of banned words, and tell me you think it would be good for the government to censor the internet.
https://pen.org/banned-words-list
Banning words is so stupid. We would just invent new words.
Occurs constantly, George Carlin had some good rants about it.
The benefits to society of free speech are really only realized if people who have incorrect/offensive/unpopular perspectives on important issues are able to express them without severe enough consequences that they choose not to out of fear. That could include community reaction, depending on what it is.