Okay I know I said no politics but censorship is one of my hot button things that annoy me and yeeeeeesh /threadhttps://twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1316452083583811584 …
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Liminal Warmth ❤ ( 📜, 📜) Retweeted Alex Thompson
Okay I know I said no politics but censorship is one of my hot button things that annoy me and yeeeeeesh /threadhttps://twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1316452083583811584 …
Liminal Warmth ❤ ( 📜, 📜) added,
Look regardless of your politics you have to decide what kind of communication you want to have Factually truthful smear campaigns are propaganda but so is basically everything Are we policing any language that makes our side look bad now? May as well just not talk
If you let people speak freely about their ideas, it’s almost always going to be propaganda through some lens or another because if all we say is things people already know or agree with, it’s not sharing ideas It’s reciting dogma I dislike dogma
You know why I get so pissed off about this? Because I’m gay, trans, and utterly unconventional in so many ways and have been routinely punished implicitly and explicitly for stepping outside of lines my whole life. And it’s fine. I figured it out.
But here’s the thing: the reason I’m able to make my way in the world with most people not being dicks to me (at least not openly) is because people who came before me were able to share subversive ideas and persuade people to see things in a new light.
If permissible speech is carefully policed so that lines aren’t crossed, it’s pretty damn easy to use those tools of power to crush marginalized perspectives. People who think “yes but we’ll only crush bad speech” are idiots who don’t understand how power works.
Think three steps ahead people. Come up with better solutions for fake news or news that makes you look bad that’s a little smarter than “oh we’ll just silence things we don’t like.” That world gets dark real fast because it makes every conversation a power struggle.
If we work off bedrock principles like “all speech is permitted and all religions are allowed and we won’t kill each other over it” then we can find other ways to address ideas we don’t like that are civil.
If the whole game becomes crushing perspectives that don’t conform to our preferences it’s a stumbling, slippery road to oppression and terror helmed by whomever is ruthless and savvy enough to seize the instruments of power.
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