@SaintHeartwing That's the argument social media companies already used years ago to get where they are

Because guess what? Debates don't really show you who has the best arguments. They just show who's the BETTER DEBATER.

it an excellent idea. it brings out the idiots in to the light for all to see

if you are free to think it why shouldnt you be free to say it

Because not all ideas are equal?

Don't you understand the "paradox of tolerance"?

do you understand the point of free speech?

@SaintHeartwing You should probably look up the court cases these companies have been involved in in order to skirt liability for their users content.

The idea is that if you just allow EVERYTHING, it will give rise to extremes that will gain power and use the exploitation of unlimited freedom to eventually kill all freedom but for THEIR People

wtf?

We already have limits on free speech because we recognize all speech shouldn't be unlimited

Are you rarted?

no it wont. The political system has nothing to do with speech

We don't allow slander, libel, defamation, shouting "fire" in a theater, child porn, etc, etc.

in fact, by silencing people you make people sympathetic

Oh, you are retarded

We decided to limit free speech to some degree because we get that having some basic standards is common sense.

Im all for giving anyone a big stage to speak on, if you are an idiot the world will see

No, they won't.

And if you don't believe me, I don't even have to point to Germany. I can point to DICK CHENEY.

Do any of you remember the 2000 VP debates?

I didn't know they made this brand of idiocy...

Lieberman was Gore's VP. he said to Cheney "I see you've been doing better than you were four years go". Remember that? And Cheney said "And I can tell you the govt had absolutely nothing to do with that." Remember that?

And guess what? People said CHENEY won that debate.

No I'm not a boomer

can we ban this guy

You could argue it helped push Bush into winning.

It proved Cheney was the better debater.

But the thing is...his point was wrong. The govt DID have something to do with it cuz Cheney's company had gotten SUPER RICH off military contracts

Jesús, he doesn't even want to converse, he just wants to rant

a lot of the time the better debater is the better choise as he looks more confident in the spotlight

I'm not following what he is saying

So the whole "if you just let people debate, the truth will come out" thing isn't true

It just means that the better debater will win

Even if his points are BS

That's my point.

well that's obviously True

Then get better n00b

most of the time no one will "win" a debate. all you do is move the people waching it in your favor

If people were smart and logical, that'd be true. But they're not.

People aren't logical beings.