So @sama has articulated the way many guys in Silicon Valley feel about "free speech". It's not a very sophisticated or informed view, but it's pretty common and he's influential, so it's worth identifying why it's dangerous and wrong.http://blog.samaltman.com/e-pur-si-muove
I did grow up in communist Eastern Germany, which restricted freedom of speech in the name of the very best intentions. Any dissenting argument was silenced or punished with the response that it would reenable Hitler fascism again. Especially the argument that maybe it would not.
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I don’t really think DDR leadership had “the very best intentions.” The BRD managed to ban Nazi symbols and speech with no obvious loss of civil liberty, economic freedom, or civic engagement, and the fascists seem to be centered among the Ossis.
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Unlike the DDR, the BRD integrated former fascists and high ranking nazi officials into government, police and secret service (even though the results where arguably better in the long run). I knew a number of DDR officials, they really had good intentions.
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Quite sure the State isn't restricting anything here. The post is making a cultural argument, trying to cultivate cultural permission to fund and collaborate with (just as an example) ethnic nationalists if doing so will be profitable.
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True, I think he was responding to Noah’s argument, which he made regarding the wedding cake case, that state support free speech should be reframed in terms of whose speech needs protection. Hate speech erodes the speech of the marginalized, and the state can help redress that.
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