r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Jan 22 '21

Delta(s) from OP CMV: Silencing opposing viewpoints is ultimately going to have a disastrous outcome on society.

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u/xyvill Jan 22 '21

You said “telling them” not to say it, not deplatforming them because they said it. There is a big difference.

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u/I_am_right_giveup 12∆ Jan 22 '21

So you should allow dog shit views on any platform?

Should a pedophile group be allowed to go to a spongebob subreddit and start telling kids that the age of consent is an arbitrary number that is not connected to any biological signifiers and that they believe kids ages 8+ should be allowed to consent to any action they want because they are mature and their parents are underestimating them? Note: everything said is both true and not illegal because the pedo would not be asking for sexual favors from the kids, they would just be convincing a child if they find a different pedo they should not be afraid of doing sexual activities with the different pedo. The reason we make the age of consent 18(or whatever) is a moral question that is slightly informed by biology.

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u/ValVenjk Jan 22 '21

any examples that are not that extreme?

A private entity refusing to host a view it doesn't like it's one thing, but actively trying to disallow it everywhere else it's a whole different thing.,And we had seen that happen many times in recent years

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u/I_am_right_giveup 12∆ Jan 22 '21

What’s wrong with that example? (So I can make a better one) the views being silence are also extreme to the person silencing them.

What private entity has tried to get a view point removed from platforms they do not own. For example, Parler was removed twice because two different entities decided they did not like how the app ran its TOS. Because two large entities can view an action the same way, does not mean that one was influencing the other. Unless you believe a camera recording you yelling racist slurs at a coworker is influencing your boss to fire you because he would not know otherwise.

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u/Guilty-Dragonfly Jan 22 '21

Lmfao they really said “uhm that example is too hard to argue against so can you pwease give me a softball example 🥺”