Stupid isn’t the same as harmful though. They didn’t ban anti-vax because it was stupid, they banned it because they were putting people at risk. This is more of the same. I don’t get what flatearthers put at risk other than our eyes after rolling them too hard.
They’re gateways for other more dangerous conspiracy theories and the alt right. Folding Ideas has an excellent vid about it but I don’t have the time to link it now.
And if we were to censor flat earthers, do you think you’ll get less alt rights from the flat earthers or more?
Hint: by blocking their speech, you end up giving them first-hand evidence on a key alt-right talking point; that the mainstream censors ideas simply because it doesn’t like them. “It was never about safety, like they said when they went after COVID deniers and anti vaxxers. They went after flat earthers who, even by their standards, aren’t posing any harm.”
It’s a gateway for stupider things.
Stupid isn’t the same as harmful though. They didn’t ban anti-vax because it was stupid, they banned it because they were putting people at risk. This is more of the same. I don’t get what flatearthers put at risk other than our eyes after rolling them too hard.
They’re gateways for other more dangerous conspiracy theories and the alt right. Folding Ideas has an excellent vid about it but I don’t have the time to link it now.
And if we were to censor flat earthers, do you think you’ll get less alt rights from the flat earthers or more?
Hint: by blocking their speech, you end up giving them first-hand evidence on a key alt-right talking point; that the mainstream censors ideas simply because it doesn’t like them. “It was never about safety, like they said when they went after COVID deniers and anti vaxxers. They went after flat earthers who, even by their standards, aren’t posing any harm.”