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No one here is advocating strong censorship though, and there is a massive chasm between banning specific topics during a pandemic and having generally strong c
by gitrog 6y ago
No one here is advocating strong censorship though, and there is a massive chasm between banning specific topics during a pandemic and having generally strong censorship.
This slippery slope is fallacious.
- brigandish 6y agoI wasn't making a slippery slope argument, I'm answering to whether there is more or less misinformation under a freer or a less free society. The easiest and best place to start is always going to be at the more extreme ends of something.
- read_if_gay_ 6y agoYou're declaring the opposite, but for a proponent of the slippery slope argument this would be a perfect example of going down the slippery slope. First came banning hate speech, now comes COVID, what's next?