HeyYou Posted August 2 Share Posted August 2 Freedom of speech, or pretty much anything else, does NOT imply freedom from consequence of said speech/actions. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InDarkestNight Posted August 2 Author Share Posted August 2 Freedom of Speech means the government can't come after you for what you say. They don't have the right to lock you up just because you don't like the current system 100%. This doesn't extend to the private sphere, yes. Companies do have the right as to what gets said on their platform. Of course, its long been said they have too much power over speech. They're the ones curating who gets the audience of the internet. Facebook was censoring both right-wing speech along with religious speech for years. The former was suspected for a while, but the latter wasn't found out until they started investigating the first! Youtube's also gone overboard censoring ANY channel that talks about even mundane things like history. There's also been rampant complaints about how conspiracy theory channels get far more noticed than channels trying to debunk them. Of course, this is probably due to them being far more numerous, meaning their audience is spread out more thinly, making it far easier for them to evade notice. Still, it is allowing conspiracy theories to spread out of control, and part of that is them STOPPING THE VIGILANTES WHO ARE TRYING TO FIGHT BACK. There are few contrasting voices on youtube, and the ones that do exist get censored disproportionately. Wonderful times we live in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScytheBearer Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 (edited) Most people don't give tuppence about the truth. They made up their mind based on their biases and prejudices long ago. Now, they only want to hear/see what they already know to be true, they want to reinforce their biases and prejudices. These folks practice deliberate and willful ignorance, shutting out the truth. Any truth or fact or scientific information which doesn't fit into their existing biases and prejudices is labeled "misinformation" or "fake news" or "just theory". Worse still, these folks lie to themselves and everyone else about what they really want. They clamor about wanting to know the truth, about how the truth is withheld from them. They complain loud, long and often about the "lamestream media" and the "liberal press" and how it seeks to mislead and misdirect and deflect the truth. They rail against "censorship" and claim it exists everywhere. But the reality is that they DON'T want to hear the truth, they want to hear the sweet and comforting lies and half truths which reinforce their existing "knowledge". Edited August 5 by ScytheBearer I can't type for sith. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fkemman11 Posted Thursday at 07:15 AM Share Posted Thursday at 07:15 AM On 7/29/2024 at 6:30 AM, InDarkestNight said: Greed is what has screwed over our society. Money has caused our world to descend into madness. Mass consumption is what we got to avoid the question that has no satisfactory answer (why we're here). Nobody is interested in personal sacrifice for a future that promises nothing. So they take what they can now until it is all gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeyYou Posted Thursday at 02:20 PM Share Posted Thursday at 02:20 PM 7 hours ago, Fkemman11 said: Mass consumption is what we got to avoid the question that has no satisfactory answer (why we're here). Nobody is interested in personal sacrifice for a future that promises nothing. So they take what they can now until it is all gone. We are an accident of nature. There is no higher purpose. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fkemman11 Posted Friday at 06:33 AM Share Posted Friday at 06:33 AM 16 hours ago, HeyYou said: We are an accident of nature. There is no higher purpose. thank you for illustrating my point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrJoseCuervo Posted Saturday at 05:18 AM Share Posted Saturday at 05:18 AM Humans natural state is barbarism. Civilization is the construct or as some see it, a gilded cage. Greed is merely the prehistoric part of our brain doing what it has for millennia. Keeping you alive. We are meant to live in small (150 peeps) communities. Keeping what you have hunted and gathered was important to keep your family alive, and I am sure it will again the day this sh!t house goes up in flames. If Ayn Rand wrote Imagine. Imagine there's no taxes It's easy to conceive No fiscal burdens to oppress us Just freedom to achieve Imagine all the people Living off their own means... Imagine there's no central banks It isn't hard to do No monetary manipulation And financial freedom's true Imagine all the people Trading with Bitcoin... You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not alone in this I hope someday you'll join us And the world will live in bliss Imagine no property tax I wonder if you can No more need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people Truly owning their land... You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will be as one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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