My point was that Popper's intention was quite the opposite of what you made it out to be: he was opposed to censorship. Due to the information age, the cartoonish version spreads faster than his actual essay, but also due to the information age, his position is only a click away
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That's not exactly non-censorship or non-tolerance - but that intolerance should not be allowed unchecked
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In the Popperian sense, this is the intention of this thread, I suppose. Popper was a classic liberal and strong free speech supporter. We can disagree with him but I don't think that you can appropriate him for supporting a hate speech law.
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The world he lived in had different information economics.
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Do you mean to say that if he was alive today he would most certainly have agreed with your contemporary political position rather than the position of wrong people and Karl Popper? :)
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I'm trying to say that he said it in context that made sense to him at his point in time. If you want to abdicate your good sense and ignore facts and realities, go ahead and die on that hill. You're the one advocating intellectual purity etc etc.
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No no, I was not taking a definite stance on a very complicated philosophical and political issue outside of my expertise myself here. I was just asking whether you would say that if he was alive today he would most certainly have agreed with your position rather than his?
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I think we'd have to reanimate him. How are you with a bit of grave robbing and necromancy? We can put his answer on the blockchain if it helps.
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Sorry, my question was not entirely sarcastic, but it was phrased much more sarcastically than it should. This is actually a serious and entirely non-obvious question to answer. I agree that today's circumstances are very different, but when does support for censorship follow?
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The legal answer is: it depends on each society.
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Absolutely. The question may become if this state is going to be more like the US or more like Israel or more like Canada or more like China or more like Saudi Arabia.
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