Gwadien
Uneducated Northern Cretin
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- Jul 15, 2006
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I won't insult your intelligence by coming up with a bunch of ideas that could prove my side of the argument. It's too easy and we could go on for ever.
The core argument is about principle.
We shouldn't be drawing lines in speech. It's too complex a subject for absolutes. Even if we have to suffer some things what we gain is greater.
I think your view is very familiar to a Puritan point of view;
Let's go back to a time when it was amazing (which was never, because it's not really realistic).
You keep talking about how Freedom of Speech was amazing during the cold war, but you forget McCarthyism, that wasn't just an American thing.
I think Facebook/Google trying to censor out extreme content from their private business is a drop in the ocean compared to the McCarthyism days.