And that's when you've won. When you've marginalised an idea so much that no-one even bothers arguing against the few loons supporting it. https://twitter.com/ExotericArlvy/status/910803149572722688 …
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I agree but think I've misunderstood because banning from e.g a disqus forum is easy way to ignore. But you didn't seem in favour of banning
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Well, banning is forcing everyone else to ignore when some people would like to counter the bad ideas. Muting is ignoring.
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Private forums must be able to make their own rules, obviously, but that is a separate issue.
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It feels related issue because no such thing as public forum. All owned by pvt businesses really. So no gen public owned online space
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Different ethical questions. Should private businesses be allowed to censor? Are bad ideas best defeated by better ideas?
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Sure. Tho. if answer to 2 is yes then answering yes to 1 can have v negative impact on defeating bad ideas.
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Yes, I think it can. I would favour forums which did not censor bad ideas so I could get at them.
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