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The what?
It was a direct 1A violation. And cowards here pretend like it didn’t happen “for the greater good” or something.
When I was 11, on 17th Nov 1989, in Czechoslovakia, my father was watching the evening news on our (black and white) TV, as usual. There was a protest and the state media was reporting on it. When the reporter said, "our camera broke down and we can only show black and white pictures", my father IMMEDIATELY jumped up and angrily said, "that's bs, you don't want to show how they [the protesting students] got beaten up…
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/09/turkey...
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I think history has shown that this is a fruitful intuition to have
As always, it depends. More often than not, the opposite is true, hence the existence of Occam's razor.
Remember when the story about Hunter Biden’s Laptop got banned from all major media? A story that could have been confirmed true by just emailing the subjects and asking them if the emails were real?
Remember when Google admitted to being pressured (and caving into said pressure) to censor conservative voices?
When we learned that Twitter allowed the US Military to run influence campaigns at people in the Middle East?
This isn’t new, we just don’t like when our weapon gets turned on us.
Free speech absolutism is the only sensible option.
Remember all the grievances about the previous executive administration's "Twitter Files" censorship? Rules for thee, but not for me. To be clear, I think both censorship regimes are not good, but I can't say I'm surprised.
The pendulum is in full swing. Soon it will be ban worthy offense to suggest there are more than two genders. Though I am morbidly enjoying the irony of seeing those on the left suddenly discover an interest in free speech, and those on the right discover their love for campaigning to get people deplatformed.
When I was 11, on 17th Nov 1989, in Czechoslovakia, my father was watching the evening news on our (black and white) TV, as usual. There was a protest and the state media was reporting on it. When the reporter said, "our camera broke down and we can only show black and white pictures", my father IMMEDIATELY jumped up and angrily said, "that's bs, you don't want to show how they [the protesting students] got beaten up…
They thought they were free.
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What you're describing here (ironically) is unironically the basis for Western political thought. What I'm referring to here is idealism [1]. Whether it's European colonial powers or the US, the basis for foreign intervention is, quite simply, that we are the Good Guys. Why? Because we're the Good Guys. Even slavery was justified in Christianity by converting the heathen and saving their immortal souls, a fundamental…
This has been proven wrong again and again. My grandparents were subsistence farmers. They had much less material wealth than any working class American and the vast majority of unhoused Americans. Yet, I can assure you that back then they were much more satisfied with life than the vast majority of working class and unhoused americans today. Second point, no amount of material wealth can compensate for severe mental…
As long as person's basic needs are met and they are covered in the case of an emergency (for example, not going bankrupt because of cancer) they can be happy.
The barrier though is other people who make you unhappy. Your friends or family can cause you to compare your wealth to others.
The news and politicians can make you feel unhappy by telling you things are worse than they used to be and/or theyre getting worse.
Media can show you things you don't have and worse make you feel as though you would be happier, more excited, or more relaxed if you had these things.
Even though it's possible to ignore this, it's extremely difficult. We aren't as strong as we think when it comes to negative emotions.