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by philosopher1234 1533 days ago
Suppose the president got up every day and issued a presidential address in which he said "we should kill all mintorities". Would you be opposed to this?

Thats an extreme example, but the point im illustrating is that in reality, as a society, we do not approve or endorse all speech, and it is obviously true that censorship is useful. You can see quite clearly that were the president to do this, it would have consequences.

Does that mean we should make certain speech illegal? Not necessarily. Does it mean we should curtail the reach of certain speech? I think it is good for Twitter to do this.

The distinction is that speech being possible is different than speech being emphasized or broadcasted.

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If we elect a president who does this we already lost as a country.