Oddbean new post about login | logout Free speech only exists if everyone has it.
Let’s be ‘avin’ it 🤙
*Can access* it. They may need to put in more legwork depending on the situation.
Everyone has free speech, as it's one of the very few natural rights. We are just supposed to keep that right from being infringed. Everyone can say whatever they want. In the digital realm, everyone can write whatever they want. Doesn't mean I have to read it.
For sure no one has the right for an audience. Or to find applause for his oppinions.
There are many situations where people aren't realistically free to speak their mind. Even in places where they are, there are often things that remain taboo.
Imagine the most vile, detestable, hateful person you can. That is the person whose right to speak needs to be protected. We might be that person, for someone else.
Exactly, nobody said free speech is easy or comfortable. But it is needed to build opinions. We can idividually ignore opinions of "idiots" but we should not censor them.
Yeah, let em talk. Whatever. Earplugs.
Earplugs or point fingers on them and say if something is not acceptable. Inaccaptable actions and wordings need disqualification. I think this is an important part of civil courage.
Fight speech with speech. Arguments with counter-arguments. Or leave them be. Always reminds me of this. https://i.nostr.build/huqdjbApVpelxxvG.jpg
Everyone one disagrees with is Hitler. It’s always Hitler. So imagine Hitler.
If we censor his message, how can we learn from the past? https://video.nostr.build/a023c40cfd02f3479768a69264382523e9e02fed9fb0c0d38c6b806c49c20e3b.mp4
I do not really agree that hate is something that needs to be defended. Yes this person can express. And it needs to be accepted that many may not agree on the form of expression on the points you mention. Since critique needs to be accepted in any direction. I have a big problem with all the self elected free speech defenders that can not live with critique. I refer to people as Elon Musk whom is no more then a rich joke.
Free speech allows you to rebut or revile the ideas. I don't think anyone wants to defend hate, only a person's right to express it, at which point we can marginalize those ideas by expressing better ideas. Allowed to be compete in the open, truth and love always triumph in the end. Though I must point out, that the ways of truth and love, being gentle, always seem to be losing the moment, but they win in the end.
Free speech isn't just for those we agree with; it's for those we despise as well. Protecting the voices we dislike is what ensures our own freedom. Let's value it, even when it's hard to do so.
Let’s goooo
