Absolutely nothing about this is surprising to me in the least. What is surprising, however, is how much people recognize this is a serious problem that seems to continue to get worse, and yet people will insist that free speech is more important. We’ve placed restrictions on yelling fire in a theater when there is none, because it causes harm to society to do it. Why, similarly, can we not place restrictions on obviously hateful and intolerant speech? Certainly those which have larger platforms and opportunity to sew this intolerance and erode democracy should have more scrutiny, no?
People do not understand freedom of speech. All it means is that the government cannot arrest you for saying somethnig, it does not mean “freedom from consequences” or that anything that is not the government cannot shut that shit down, which they absolutely should do.
Social shaming and banning of certain speech should absolutely be done.
As for the government, well, we aren’t a fan of them, but we’re also not a fan of cops, jails or the injustice system, so it’s better that way for now.
All it means is that the government cannot arrest you for saying somethnig
Actually, it means a lot more than that.
It means you’re entitled to a platform - that you can say things into a microphone to a large crowd gathered for any reason on federal land that’s open to individuals… including to talk about how other humans are deserving of hate. We don’t owe them a space to spread hate speech. We can do better.
Absolutely nothing about this is surprising to me in the least. What is surprising, however, is how much people recognize this is a serious problem that seems to continue to get worse, and yet people will insist that free speech is more important. We’ve placed restrictions on yelling fire in a theater when there is none, because it causes harm to society to do it. Why, similarly, can we not place restrictions on obviously hateful and intolerant speech? Certainly those which have larger platforms and opportunity to sew this intolerance and erode democracy should have more scrutiny, no?
People do not understand freedom of speech. All it means is that the government cannot arrest you for saying somethnig, it does not mean “freedom from consequences” or that anything that is not the government cannot shut that shit down, which they absolutely should do.
Social shaming and banning of certain speech should absolutely be done.
As for the government, well, we aren’t a fan of them, but we’re also not a fan of cops, jails or the injustice system, so it’s better that way for now.
Actually, it means a lot more than that.
It means you’re entitled to a platform - that you can say things into a microphone to a large crowd gathered for any reason on federal land that’s open to individuals… including to talk about how other humans are deserving of hate. We don’t owe them a space to spread hate speech. We can do better.
Because that starts us down an even worse path.
like explicitly excluding yelling fire in a theater sent us down a worse path, I’m sure