RE: Alex Jones and Infowars gets 'disappeared' - are we headed in the right direction?
October 17, 2018 at 2:56 pm
(October 17, 2018 at 2:42 pm)Dr H Wrote: The key point you raise is that of consequences. While all speech may be permitted, the intelligent person realizes that speech of any sort may have consequences. If I use words in a situation which I have reason to believe are likely to provoke hostile reaction, and somebody slugs me for them, I really can't complain; there's no one to blame but myself.
The problem is that the power that the arbiters of these social medium platforms enjoy is not analogous to that you enjoy in your own home, which is both rather limited, circumscribed, and shared ubiquitously. All that making such an analogy shows is that we can use bad analogies to overlook and ignore relevant disanalogies.
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