The extremely strong freedom of speech laws we have in the US is definitely something we got right. Reading things like this make me really grateful about those protections.
But at the end day they agreed that freedom of speech is too important even with all of its dangers.
Not trying to be confrontational, just curios to know as I don't know of many and haven't done the research.
1. Education (how to form solid arguments and how to view topics from multiple sides)
2. Plurifomity. By combining people from different social-economic groups. Basically an anti divide and conquer which state sponsored media have driven us towards.
3. Acceptance. Everyone picks their fruits of freedom of speech. Just because the fruits of one are the pains of others does not mean we should throw the baby away with the bath water.
4. New policy and law. The anti-vac movement indicates the necessity of new laws and policies. Perhaps vaccines should be mandatory. Perhaps we should let the anti-vaccers pay for the damages.
5. Work on the public perception of that which is embattled. In this case of anti-vac it is science as a whole.
In my opinion we should do loads and loads more of #2, but it seems everyone and everything is in its own filter bubble. We need much more social cohesion.
The tobacco industry pulled every trick in the book to maintain their own interests. Society spends even more money on public messaging, education etc etc to try and reduce smoking rates.
Do we want more of the same, but with social media this time? They do us harm. The rule is we do not let anyone make money by doing us harm.
We do ourselves harm because we do not understand the power of the interactions we are part of. Children should be protected. Adults should know better.
The other side fears losing their privilege/capital/power/reputation and cares not a whit for those they consider sub-human.
Putting some foxes into the henhouse won't go well for the hens when it's dinner time.
If this were true, only one side would have wedge issues.
Their "gotta get mine before anyone else gets theirs" attitudes and beliefs are absolutely antithetical to such a thing.
So I stand by my statement: Only one side is willing to have a productive conversation about any given issue.
If every idea is acceptable, and I cannot face consequences for anything I say, then what difference is there between the statements "Apples are fruit" and "Apples are the square root of 45"?
Certainly, that's not the level of free speech we're at, but all this clamouring for unrestricted free speech makes me almost as worried as the threat of censorship.
It's obviously not a perfect way of going about things, but I think it definitely errs in the right direction.
To an outside observer, you must have a good idea, after all, you have so many more people in agreement than detractors!
Which basically makes it impossible for "the community" to hand you any consequences.
If the current generation needs to undergo a propaganda war, it will either fail or rise above like the generations before. And then we will be protected from that particular attack, like our national immunity has grown stronger from a particular type of sickness. If we try to avoid the problem we at best are just weakening ourselves for the next attack, at worst we give up our freedoms in the cause of maintaining them.
Fight it out, good ideas kill bad ideas. Live free or die.
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> Jones told the WSJ he wasn’t aware of any instructions on dealing with China. He also said he didn’t fully understand what the issue was about.
> “This job was all I had,” Jones also said. “I’m at the age now where I don’t have many opportunities.”
The scope of "illegal activities" is what's at fault here, not the means by which they are enforced.
The fact that we can even have this discussion is in itself proof that there's orders of magnitudes of difference in allowed speech.
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It's there, black and white. I don't get what your bit here is (I find it hard to believe in the value of actually paying people to astroturf HN of all places on CN net policy), but the list is there.
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