02-10-2021, 08:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-10-2021, 08:01 PM by Louisabell.)
Yes, I am a big proponent of freedom of speech, within reasonable limits of course (no incitement of violence, no defamation and no conspiring to commit crimes).
I am generally against the worst of "cancel culture", where people go after someone's job, harrasing someone's family and friends, sending death threats, all just for ideas they have shared. I find all that stuff abhorrent. No one's life should be ruined over words.
However, I also am a proponent of property rights. These platforms that certain controversial people want "full access" to to exercise their free speech, are not their property. These platforms are the private property of other people, and therefore it is totally moral for these property owners to set guidelines and enforce them on the infrastructure they've built.
I am generally against the worst of "cancel culture", where people go after someone's job, harrasing someone's family and friends, sending death threats, all just for ideas they have shared. I find all that stuff abhorrent. No one's life should be ruined over words.
However, I also am a proponent of property rights. These platforms that certain controversial people want "full access" to to exercise their free speech, are not their property. These platforms are the private property of other people, and therefore it is totally moral for these property owners to set guidelines and enforce them on the infrastructure they've built.