Comment by vintermann
4 years ago
> providing hateful content spreads hate.
You talk as if hate is a kind of mind-virus which must be defeated with quarantine.
For one thing, this is illiberal. You're not respecting people as your equals if you want to stop hatred by preventing them from reading things that can make them hate.
But more importantly, if it's that way, we have lost already. The tools you want to fight these evils with, work just as well in the enemy's hands, if not better.
We need a way to fight propaganda which works better for us than for them.
> But more importantly, if it's that way, we have lost already.
Absolutely. If the status quo sees ideas as a risk to reduce, clearly it's fragile.