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by xbar 1474 days ago
No, it's a trade-off. Just like free speech. Banning free speech would "work" exactly as well for "fixing" exploitation. I think flatly making both of those trades against freedom is a mistake, just the same as doing nothing to address exploitation and gun violence are mistakes.
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Free speech exists for a reason. "Freedom for guns" doesn't - it's just a fringe idea, only existing because of US flawed democracy.
Freedom of speech also used to be considered a fringe idea. Just because something is fringe doesn't mean it is not a right.