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Backsliding on free expression around the world needs to end

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Re: Backsliding on free expression around the world needs to end

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Post by colechristensen »

"I find people who don't think exactly like me to be intolerable" is the bread and butter for controlling a population. People look at the past and think to themselves "those people in the past were wrong, that's why the one acceptable way to think being enforced with power was immoral, on the other hand, my opinions are right, so the ends justify the means".

Intolerance is intolerance, regardless of how morally justified you think it is.

Re: Backsliding on free expression around the world needs to end

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Post by bradhilton »

> The level of democracy enjoyed by the average citizen around the world in 2021 has regressed to 1989 levels

Sounds ominously like the iron curtain is falling back into place, this time more dispersed, not just concentrated in the Soviet bloc.

> 70 percent of the global population lives under dictatorships, according to VDem’s data. That’s a rise of 20 percent over the past decade.

That's pretty disconcerting. Without knowing more about their methodology I'm not sure how this compares to the Cold War era, but it is worrisome to say the least.

Re: Backsliding on free expression around the world needs to end

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Post by ClumsyPilot »

Criticising actions of governments is all well and good, but no-one is discussing how much it has become acceptable to go after people for some percieved offence. I am not just talking about cancell culture.

Like the fact that Elon Musk is demanding that a lawfirm should fire a lawyer that used to work for SEC just for revenge.

Or the fact that you can get removed from Youtube just because 100 bots filed reports against your channel, no human has ever been offended and no human has ever reviewed the complaint.

How does free speech that offends powerfull people survive in 'law of the jungle' interpretation of free market?

Re: Backsliding on free expression around the world needs to end

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Post by ndsipa_pomu »

colechristensen wrote: post #3

"I find people who don't think exactly like me to be intolerable" is the bread and butter for controlling a population. People look at the past and think to themselves "those people in the past were wrong, that's why the one acceptable way to think being enforced with power was immoral, on the other hand, my opinions are right, so the ends justify the means". Intolerance is intolerance, regardless of how morally just…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant. Karl Popper described it as the seemingly self-contradictory idea that in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must retain the right to be intolerant of intolerance.

Re: Backsliding on free expression around the world needs to end

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Post by swatcoder »

MonkeyMalarky wrote: post #5

I wonder why Mexico was omitted from both the article and map? Hasn't deaths/disappearances of journalists been running rampant there?

I'm not sure why that graphic excludes it, but they link to the source they're relying on, and they do seem to track it as well.

https://www.article19.org/gxr-22/#:~:text=Meet%20our%20teams....

Re: Backsliding on free expression around the world needs to end

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Post by bena »

MonkeyMalarky wrote: post #5

I wonder why Mexico was omitted from both the article and map? Hasn't deaths/disappearances of journalists been running rampant there?

Also Greenland and a couple of other Central/South American countries.

It's probably just areas they don't have good or reliable data for.

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