Been told a few times lately that I need to reserve terms like 'denial of freedom of speech' 'authoritarian' & 'censorious' to law & gov.
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However, laws & governments are determined by ppl & I think we need to address authoritarian & censorious ideas before they get that far
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Telling someone they can't say some things, don't get to say some things, have wrong identity to say some things is not literally censorship
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But it is a censorious attitude. And it can be argued with. And we do need the word 'censorious' to point out the problem.
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Informal rules can be described as 'authoritarian' even if they have no legal power if they dictate restrictions rather than freedoms.
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Because 'authoritarian' & 'libertarian' are adjectives on either end of a scale describing how much freedom we think ppl should have.
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I'm confused. If I wrote this series of tweets I'd be shot down for manthreading so how come you're allowed to do it


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Yep. The whole 'manthreading' nonsense has caused many ppl to call me the prime culprit. I'm sure you'll survive.
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Seems similar to "systemic racism is the only kind of racism" (but then why does the "systemic" prefix even exist?)
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FoS sometimes invoked gratuitously but platforms like Twitter/Facebook now so part of society they as important as govt projects
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Almost all Internet is privately owned/supplied. If it's OK for all private companies to do anything, some ppl can't communicate
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@catovitch We can argue for the *principle* of free speech. That free exchange of ideas is a good thing or not depending on environment -
Agreed. I think 1 problem is casual conversation often conflates free speech and the 1st Amendment, opening an easy/lazy retort.
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I like this, well put. For me there's also a fuzzy kind off... "Is it a public square?" type test. Banning topics in a home or
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Yes. We don't have to have creationists at science conferences & teachers should not describe their sex lives to small children.
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