Re: Censoship List

On 1/13/21 3:21 PM, Grant Taylor wrote:
> On 1/13/21 2:51 PM, Ken Springer wrote:
>> Technically hate speech is censorship,
> 
> How is hate speech censorship?  Or are you describing an effect of hate
> speech driving others away, thus censoring what they would have said?
> 
> If so, I find that considerably different than something like censoring
> / bleeping cuss words on TV.
> 
>> The biggest problem here is who gets to define it.  you may find some
>> speech as hateful, others may not.
> 
> There is usually a commonly accepted average of what is and is not
> hateful.  There's also how it's used.  Talking about something in the
> abstract vs using it to describe someone (ad hominem attack) are two
> considerably different things.  The former may be a slippery slope,
> while the latter is a step too far.

But all in all, the demarcation line here is still in the eye of the 
beholder.

> A quote from a judge comes to mind:  I can't define porn, but I sure
> know it when I see it.

It's from a US Supreme Court justice, but I don't remember which one.




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