Comment by polio
3 years ago
Deplatforming is analogous to quarantining a person with an infectious disease. It works. The FBI can still monitor whatever's left of KF on Tor or Discord.
3 years ago
Deplatforming is analogous to quarantining a person with an infectious disease. It works. The FBI can still monitor whatever's left of KF on Tor or Discord.
If you think of beliefs as infectious diseases, you're not respecting the autonomy of other people.
If I need to be prevented from knowing what the monsters say in order to avoid turning into a monster myself, then I promise you, we've lost. The monsters are going to eat us all.
You've got plenty of autonomy left to visit them in whatever darkweb hellhole they decide to exist in and learn what the monsters are saying. We don't need to allow places in the public square for these people.
Tolerance for ideas is not a suicide pact.
Yes, I can probably for myself still find out what they are saying. But this is about KF being removed from an archive site. Making it harder to prove what they are saying, and easier to lie about what they are saying. Who benefits from that?
The existence of marketing disproves the autonomy of people. Ideas spread through exposure and rhetoric.