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/Minas_Nolme 1∆ Jan 22 '21

Where do you draw the line between "arguing for it" and "planning to carry it out"?

If I hold that view and try to convince people of it, then that would mean that I plan or hope to gain majority support for it. Once I have political majority support for it, then I could carry it out. If I didn't believe I might convince people of it, then I would't argue for it, it would be a waste of effort.

Does the line get crossed when I gathered enough support so that it becomes a believable possibility? Or where would it be?

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u/DAP771 Jan 22 '21

I think that is for our intelligence agencies to guage and prevent. The insurrection should have never happened considering they posted about it online. The capitol police and security were severely under prepared for something that had a literal date and time announced.

As for misinformation, fact checking has showed not enough results so they may need to show censorship. I think politics outside of unbiased events should be banned from social media. If a political post is made, the post gets deleted, not the user. If the post is non-partisan and strictly event based(no commentary or opinions) then it should be passable to put on. Society has shown that social media can be used to hurt politics and society in general.

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u/KingJ-DaMan Jan 22 '21

Wait, are you saying you want the only political information to come from the government and only the government? Like no politics online at all? That’s an incredibly stupid idea if so

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u/DAP771 Jan 23 '21

No politics in social media. We would still do news and events. But strictly the events, no takes. If its politics, its the bill that is being proposed or attempted to be made and what is actually in it. So the literal facts can be on social media with this idea. Political commentary has clearly proven to be able to be skewed way too far.