• FlickOfTheBean@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You can’t seriously be against all censorship in books, right? Where are your actual boundaries? I don’t think you’d be ok with something obviously evil like a book of cp… Right?

    Edgecases are why it’s hard to be consistent.

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      1 year ago

      That’s illegal and for good reason.

      Yet somehow the US functions with freedom of speech even with some restrictions.

      But we’re not talking about CP are we? We’re taking about how we are still dealing with rightoids censoring books and now the left wants certain ones censored.

      I argued against the right censoring books and I’ll continue to argue the same way, regardless of who the next shitty group trying it is.

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        1 year ago

        That’s my point though. If you don’t ban (aka censor) illegal things as a foundation, you end up living in a hellscape. I’m saying your argument isn’t thorough enough. It’s not going far enough. It’s scratching the surface and saying “good enough” when it doesn’t actually appear to be.

        I am talking about illegal things because it’s an obvious hole in your argument. What are you talking about about? Because it sounds like you’re being short sighted to me, sticking to a happy path, but I could be wrong. What do you think?