“I specifically disagree with his stance on free speech, because I think that it depends on your interpretation of what free speech means. If you allow the most intolerant voices to be as loud as they want to, you’re going to shut down voices of different opinions as well. So allowing free speech by just allowing all speech is not actually leading to free speech, it just leads to a cesspit of hate.”
Great interview with the founder of Mastodon.
@Crecenteb The way I look at it, is that when people came up with these idealised versions of freedom of speech, they were talking about being able to express views like "we should elect our head of state" without fear of government reprisal.
They weren't talking about the right to advocate genocide, or its precursors, or to deliberately spread misinformation and if they were then we shouldn't uncritically accept their ideas without modification.
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