one word that describes my impression of America before coming is ‘freedom’,” says Lian, who currently studies at the University of California, Irvine. “[But] after I studied here for a while, I started to kind of understand American society. My impression went from good to bad. https://twitter.com/HadleyBishop/status/959877947585777664 …
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I'm hardcore in support of the former but increasingly dubious of the latter. Free speech requires epistemic hygiene, or it will only spread disease, and I don't see how epistemic hygiene is possible, due to 100th monkey logic.
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Without as much freedom of speech as we have now, we'd just get increasing hate speech laws etc. It's hard to come up with a realistic scenario in which things are better without generalized freedom of speech.
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But would that actually make a difference? We're only discovering, yet again, that truth doesn't pay in the marketplace of ideas. What I'm saying isn't Pravda, it's ban journalism entirely. No news is good news.
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My only argument in favour of free speech is how-to books and e.g. computer cleaning tutorials on youtube.
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Enforcement costs are too high; too likely to be biased in some bad way
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Yes, that's why it's a free-speech argument.
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