“This is surrender, not principle.”
@GSpellchecker on how closing your eyes doesn’t make the problem disappear.https://www.gspellchecker.com/2016/12/the-chicago-review-of-books-attempts-a-stand-against-milo-yiannopoulos-and-bolsters-his-rhetoric-instead/ …
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(Because, remember, that for every Milo you want to silence, there are a hundred religious fundamentalists who want to silence you.)
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We will not win the war of ideas by silencing the ones we don’t like but by nurturing a commons where ideas can be freely debated.
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(That said, freedom of speech does not imply a freedom to compel anyone to listen.)
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I find your argument here a bit confusing. Surely a public sphere would not publish and advertise for anyone's ideas.
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Exactly. And yet it would facilitate their expression and debate. Monopoly of centralised private platforms is the problem.
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So publishing being done by private corporations is the problem in this particular case?
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I was simply noting that under Capitalism, the issue of brand damage cannot be reconciled with free speech.
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I don't agree with this. As long as corps are free to publish what they want, it is free speech.
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Have we ever had such a public sphere? Liberal democracy is a very thin veneer over tribalistic & autocratic infrastructures.
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