Re: Censoship List
Big Al <[email protected]>
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On 1/13/21 6:19 PM, this is what Ken Springer wrote: > 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. > > > It wasn't the Larry FLint Case? -- Linux Mint Cinnamon 20.1 64bit, Dell Inspiron 5570 laptop Quad Core i7-8550U, 16G Memory, 512G SSD, 750G & 1TB HDDs _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/general