[Link] On the paradox of tolerance in relation to fascism and online content moderation – Unstable Ontology

[Kenny]

On the paradox of tolerance in relation to fascism and online content moderation – Unstable Ontology

I found the post to be wonderful. It expresses my own thoughts and feelings extremely well.

Some comments I made on the ACX post that shared this:

YESSSSS! Tolerate all speech! Persecute the initiation of violence or coercion (e.g. the threat of violence)! Ayn Rand had this down but this post is wonderful too. I like the thoughts on when, i.e. under what circumstances, to ‘de-platform’ someone: “they make enough absurd arguments that are easy to demonstrate false”; that “enough” is doing a LOT of the work tho! Daryl Davis and similar are what I think of as an ‘existence proof’ that “enough” is, for many of the relevant people, QUITE a lot actually!