Tuesday, 4 January 2022

“...the answer to bad speech isn't removal from the platform, but instead more "good speech" to counter it."

Actually I don’t really buy the meme above because FB, Twitter, etc are effective
monopolies and they censor conservatives exclusively. 
I’m a Free Speech absolutist; I hew to the headline: “...the answer to bad speech isn't removal from the platform, but instead more "good speech" to counter it.”

Dr Tara Smith makes a case for selective “de-platforming”.  Thought-provoking. One of the few “yes, but...” arguments that makes some sense. [Salman Rushdie and the “but brigade”. I believe in Free Speech, but....]

Another way of saying it, I think from Churchill: “a lie will go around the world, in the time the truth has put on its socks’.