tbh there are many books with that theme at least partially present

brave new world has some of that too

You reduce the words you can say you eventually reduce the possible thoughts you can think

and gulag archipelligo too

yeah they want to control speech and public discusson..

And eventually all dissenters have no physical way of dissenting

The end

speech has consequences lol

*and hate speech is violence*😜

banning words is silly, but speech isn't some holy act that must be protected

ofc it does, and so should the disproportional violent crime commited by a specific race

tbh if there are any holy things, free speech is prolly one

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i mean im very fedora athiest, so holy shit is dumb, but there are not many things i can think of that should be more holy

*tips fedora*

life, liberty, happiness, compassion, charity, etc etc

speech is neutral in and of itself afaic

its how you fix societies that lack all those things

without burning em to the ground first

ah, darn

@Jasse not really, both sides are obsessed with censorship when it's authoritarian.

uwu notices ur centrism

*nuzzles*

horse shoe intensifies.

centrists are the most anti-free speech tbh
any radical would be for free speech, since restrictions would target them first

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i do wonder how a centrist could be against free speech, walk me trough it

I think it's a shitpost or something idk.

shh

i was doing the centrist thing

Lolwut

centrists want to protect the status quo, aye?
hate speech, threats of violence, calls for revolution, leaking government secrets, they all threaten the status quo, so centrists should want to restrict it

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correct me if i'm wrong

i dont think centrists want to protect the status quo at all

at least i dont

you identify as a centrist?

internet centrists tend to believe, in my experience, that no one side holds all the answers, and to expect a side of the political compas to come up with all answers is silly

they also eat bees

🐝

woke