[HN Gopher] Bad Speech
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       Bad Speech
        
       Author : amadeuspagel
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2023-10-11 14:46 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | hirundo wrote:
       | "My solution is to close the tab and to read a book."
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       | Exactly. Exchange off-the-cuff zero cost near-anonymous speech
       | with well considered, edited, personally identifiable speech with
       | a significant cost to publish. Without knowing anything about the
       | content of the speech you can still usefully predict that the
       | later will be more dense with meaning and generally more worth
       | your time.
       | 
       | HN is a good place to sift through the former to discover the
       | later. So yeah, you have to put up with both.
        
       | bitwize wrote:
       | The Great Banality Laser is working precisely as designed. Even
       | with Elon Musk pointing it at the planet's core in the hopes of
       | blowing it up.
        
       | h2odragon wrote:
       | Deciding not to engage with $BAD yourself is great; but then
       | you've shirked your responsibility to decide what $BAD is for the
       | rest of the world!
       | 
       | Just because you have the intelligence and judgement to perceive
       | and avoid $BAD doesn't mean that you can trust your fellow
       | citizens to do the same. They must be shielded from everything
       | that you disagree with so as to protect you!
       | 
       | Seriously; the admission that you can't make decisions about what
       | others should be reading is an embrace of humility that more
       | people should attempt. I'm not sure when "we can agree to
       | disagree" became a Sin but its has.
        
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