is there anything for you that reasonable people couldn’t disagree? Anything someone could say that would make them worth deplatforming, in your mind?
Good question!
I think there are plenty of things where reasonable people can’t disagree on.
Like, if somebody said we should kill all of the people of ______ race/gender/____ist. Or committing actual physical acts of violence against somebody simply because of their race/gender/____ist.
The question of deplatforming is a separate thing. I think we should have a very strong prior towards letting people say whatever they want, wherever they want, unless there’s a very direct link between the words and causing physical violence.
It shouldn’t be based on whether the words are incorrect (because that’s an impossible standard and would silence almost all discourse) and it shouldn’t be based on whether it hurts people’s feelings (because that would incentivize using feelings as a way to censor people, and it would mean almost all political discussion would be banned).
Good question!
I think there are plenty of things where reasonable people can’t disagree on.
Like, if somebody said we should kill all of the people of ______ race/gender/____ist. Or committing actual physical acts of violence against somebody simply because of their race/gender/____ist.
The question of deplatforming is a separate thing. I think we should have a very strong prior towards letting people say whatever they want, wherever they want, unless there’s a very direct link between the words and causing physical violence.
It shouldn’t be based on whether the words are incorrect (because that’s an impossible standard and would silence almost all discourse) and it shouldn’t be based on whether it hurts people’s feelings (because that would incentivize using feelings as a way to censor people, and it would mean almost all political discussion would be banned).