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USA's Control of Internet Speech
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this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2024
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Every ounce of energy a person spends watching their back, making sure their fellow man isn't out to get them, hardening their armor against the thousands of people trying to find a chink, find the one thing they can say that gets them to have a mental breakdown just because they think it's funny watching them have a mental breakdown, is an ounce of energy they don't spend creating, caring for each other, making the life of their fellow man just that little bit better, and unapologetically being themselves.
But if you're so insistent that words on a screen can't affect you unless you let them, Mr. Forumite, I guess you won't mind if I end this conversation by telling you to go to the hardware store and buy a rope and a bucket, providing exhaustive instructions for how to tie a noose, and telling you to end your worthless life before you ruin anyone else's, because your parents clearly never loved you and there's no way anyone else who's sane ever will.
Yeah. I don't mind. I don't care whether or not you say anything else to me, whether or not it's intended to be hurtful.
What you don't seem to me like you understand is that some people are far more prone to mental breakdowns than others, but it could happen to anyone. It could happen to you or I at some point in the future. If I were incredibly sensitive and easy to manipulate, then I could be going off to follow your instructions right now and end my life.
Some people can be manipulated with silver tongues. Look at what politicians do, and the media that mock different sides when they say certain things.
Nobody wants to be manipulated, and "hardening" yourself emotionally is what I think to be a very important and natural part of maturing.
I don't think people should be erasing any information they even slightly disagree with though. The media only show you certain things to make you believe certain things, which is the point OP seems to have been making. Mods could also make a pretty good argument to delete your comment because you just told me to kill myself, but I still don't personally think they should.
Genuinely, though, calm down, mate. This is just a space to have discussions in your spare time. We should all be friends here. My advice would be to take a break, especially if you don't want the mods to come in and ban your account.
Deep breaths. Most things people say don't matter very much. It should usually be that simple.
So you believe that, since there are a large number of people who can be easily manipulated by words into believing or doing certain things, and there likely always will be, words may as well inherently have power and we should be careful with how we use them, but you simultaneously believe that the solution to this is just to make everyone grow thicker skin?
For the record, though, I don't believe anyone should kill themselves, or anything that I said about you personally in the second paragraph. Quite the opposite, in fact. I only said that to make the point that "just words on a screen" can do horrible things to the right people, which I'm glad you seem to understand.
I'm just going to throw in a bit at the end of this thread here, as I find the conversation fascinating.
This is how fascism starts. "We have to control speech for your own good" becomes "hateful speech comes from [insert group]" becomes "we have to stop them."
We are all being weaponized by the internet. Free speech is important. You don't fight fascism with more fascism, you fight it with better ideas.