I hope people will take this reply in good faith, as that’s definitely where I’m coming from, but I think I sort of disagree with this in general.
Censorship means not allowing the speech. Denying someone a platform/quiet space to speak is another kind of speech. You don’t have to put a white supremacist on TV to give their side of things. You have to let them speak but you don’t have to give them a megaphone, and choosing to withhold a megaphone from people with crap ideas isn’t censorship, it’s common sense.
I guess I just want to point out where this kind of thinking seems to lead to in terms of how we treat different kinds of speech.
I hope people will take this reply in good faith, as that’s definitely where I’m coming from, but I think I sort of disagree with this in general.
Censorship means not allowing the speech. Denying someone a platform/quiet space to speak is another kind of speech. You don’t have to put a white supremacist on TV to give their side of things. You have to let them speak but you don’t have to give them a megaphone, and choosing to withhold a megaphone from people with crap ideas isn’t censorship, it’s common sense.
I guess I just want to point out where this kind of thinking seems to lead to in terms of how we treat different kinds of speech.