Freedom of speech is under attack and it could get worse

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padib said:

Lafiel said:

you can't let demagogues run rampant under the banner of "freedom of speech", a lot of people are easy to entice by "simple messages and answers" these people provide in the form of scapegoats

and that conspiracy theory this youtube channel is crafting is a total joke

A lot of people aren´t enticed though.

It's important to allow ideas to be shared within healthy and respectful dialogue to allow the best ideas and most reasonable ideas to naturally make it to the top. To say that ideas shouldn't be expressed because people can too easily be enticed is based on fear and lack of trust in human reason, as well as free will.

Industries are programming our children and teens and adults with messages of sex and power, yet nobody is revolting against it. The downward trend is really easy to spot over a span of many years, but one year at a time it's very pernicious.

However if people are expressing ideas in open debate, I am not sure why that could be a dangerous thing. It would not be done in the dark, rather freedom of speech would enable the ideas to be shared out in the open, for everyone to judge and analyse.

There are fine lines to everything. There is no absolute freedom, be it speech or any other type of freedom.