You can’t use the full power of government sanctions and criminal charges to silence the people you disagree with (for whatever reason. Even if they are valid reasons) so you try to find creative ways to punish them. Well… not really “creative”, since the idea of excommunication is not new. But my point is that this is still about using power to silence voices you don’t like - you just use a slightly different power in a slightly different way.
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Please don’t treat the freedom of speech (or any other important democratic right) as a creative limitation…
Maybe you haven’t met the right cream yet?
No. You love cream. That’s a different thing.
8·23 hours agoThese are not good boys
There is a big difference between voting/supporting them and following them on social media. I encourage everyone, Left as well as Right, to follow people, pages and communities of the other side. You should know the story the other side tells itself. Even if you don’t agree with it - it’s better to not agree with the real thing than to fight straw men in echo chambers.
1·24 hours agoYou are being excommunicated for resisting excommunication!
That’s the beauty of religion - if our gods and prophets did not materialize to contradict what we are saying in their name, that means they approve.
Placing exceptions on the freedom of speech does not mean that lies will get silenced. It means that whatever the government wants to censor will get silenced. Because the government will be the one who does the censoring. Or, if the censoring is not done by the government directly - the government will still be the one appointing the organization who does the censoring.
The freedom of speech must be protected - even if it means letting bad agents spread their lies uncensored. Because if you try to give the government the power to censor them, you’ll end up with a new Department of Truth led by Alex Jones (who is now unoccupied)
This is a terrible, horrible idea. It would give the government the power to censor anyone and anything, and all they have to do is claim that the thing they are censoring is a lie.
I see you take after your dad.
Downvoting in order to bring it below @whynot’s comment.
Counterargument: Luke Skywalker.
Sounds like English vs Vikings all over again
Of course you don’t. You only care about yourself.
Looney Tunes fans looking at Bugs all day
I don’t think you quite grasp the meaning of the word “focus”…
Passive aggressiveness is its own benefit.
No. Japan is a democracy now. This lil guy is just a figurehead.
You want to silence certain voices (the one telling lies) but can’t/won’t use proper government sanctions, so instead you coordinate the community to keep distance from these voices, hoping to deter people from voicing them and preventing the ones too determined to be deterred from getting any reach. This is excommunication.
My problem is not with the exact way you are trying to censor your political opponents - it’s in the very fact you are set out to censor them. You don’t have to listen to them, you don’t have to give them a platform, but if you try to establish a wide system to prevent other people from hearing these voices - that’s censoring.