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Textbook fallacy fallacy.

Fallacy fallacy(and variants) implies there is a fallacy in the first place.

If the slope is slippery, it is not a fallacy to conclude that things will slide when placed on it.

Claiming something is a fallacy —when it is not— is simply a false statement of fact.

For a slippery slope there has to be something about the slope that makes you start at the top. If you can go to any point on the slope, it isn't even a slope.

Anthropic can start censoring criticism of Dario completely independently from whether or not they censor Deepseek.

Textbook fallacy fallacy fallacy

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