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Something is wrong when the king needs to censor the jester.
by pmurt7 5y ago
Something is wrong when the king needs to censor the jester.
- fabianhjr 5y agoI don't understand the allegories to feudalism when jesters who crossed a line weren't censored but executed. (I would guess specially if they expressed or supported any sort of anti-monarchy or anti-their-monarchs viewpoints)
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- nullc 5y agoI believe banishment was a much more common punishment in feudal kingdoms than execution.
- fabianhjr 5y agoApparently some jesters were used as messengers during campaigns / sieges and if the recipient didn't like the message they would be trebucheted back to whomever sent them.
- nyolfen 5y agomaybe peasant is a better allegory; he works the lord's lands solely at the lord's discretion, keeps a tiny share of what is produced and is ejected at will
- sharklazer 5y agoActually, it was a chief job of the jester to cross the line when other members of the court could not. Jesters, as all court members, had a natural fear of execution, but probably not any higher than any of the other courtiers.
- gremloni 5y agoHe had a slightly different line, but got executed if he crossed that one.
- quotemstr 5y agoYou can't properly understand something if you can't question it. When you elevate any idea to unquestionable capital-T Truth, you blind yourself to the actual truth. You break the only mechanism we've ever discovered for figuring out how the world actually works. Censorship of anything is the enemy of human progress and always has been.
- Cycl0ps 5y agoI can agree with you, but the issue is that this isn't an academic discussion on the merits of thorough vaccine trials. Here's the third verse: "Let’s go, Brandon, we know he cappin’ Patriots out in the street takin’ action Huntin’ us down for speakin’ the truth (Huh) Beat down the PEDO, let’s save all the youth (Uh huh) Media lyin’, ignore all the cryin’ They buildin’ back better, but only the Taliban (What?) Pilots on strike, but to Joe, it’s irrelevant Open the border, lose all the order Divide us up so they know what we never win But we united, we here in the stadiums (Let’s go) Everyone chantin’ it, CNN slanderin’ (Let’s go) Biden collaspin’ and Democrats stealin’ it (Facts) Ayy, we look at Joe, can we get a refund? (Brandon) How ‘bout some mean tweets? (Facts) Joe is a crook, and he knows how to decieve F.J.B. is the motto in these streets, let’s go, Brandon sing it with me" I see a lot of claims but no questions. This wasn't written to question, it was written to enforce ideas already held by the listener. I agree that the song shouldn't be censored, but I also think it doesn't have any right to be promoted or distributed by third parties. YouTube has as much of a right to take the song down as Sound Cloud has to leave it up, which is exactly equal to any venue that chooses to let him perform on stage.
- TechBro8615 5y agoYouTube certainly has that right, but they enforce it at the risk of losing any credibility on claims of impartiality or “holding free speech as a core value,” like their CEO bragged about last month. But yes, I totally agree – the song “Fuck Donald Trump” has been on YouTube for 5+ years with millions of views, and YouTube has every right to take it down.
- atleta 5y ago[flagged]
- gremloni 5y agoThe jester is basically spreading hate speech and harmful misinformation. There limits to iTs juST a pRAnk
- exporectomy 5y agoDid you really live through that whole Trump-era hate speech and harmful misinformation culture and not once stop to understand what that means? Did you do nothing more than repeat slogans without passing them through your human intellect first? I dare you to define those terms so that they mean anything other than "The enemy's tribe is bad because it's not the one I happened to fall into."
- gremloni 5y agoThe enemy’s tribe is bad because they’re racist.
- exporectomy 5y agoNot only can you not define the buzzwords you used, but you doubled down and used another ill-defined buzzword that you also won't know the meaning of. You're a human being capable of far deeper thought than that. Why would you willfully cripple yourself so much? OK, that was a rhetorical question - you're intellectually crippling yourself to show allegiance to your tribe, membership in which satisfies some of your otherwise unmet emotional needs.
- gremloni 5y agoIt’s a simple word. Racism.
- hiram112 5y ago> hate speech and harmful misinformation Both undefinable terms that are increasingly being used anytime the current Western establishment wishes to censor speech and silence their opponents. When the Chinese or Russians do it, we call it out for what it is: censorship and abuse of power. It's even more insidious when it's done in supposedly free societies, because we wrap it up in a bow with these nebulous terms and feign noble intentions.
- silverspoonin 5y agoOh, was not aware that youtube was part of the federal government.
- cema 5y agoIt is not part of any government, but if it does work on its behest we need to ask questions.