• growingentropy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    The repercussion to bad speech and ideas is inherent to the current paradigm of the internet: downvotes and ostracization.

    Maybe they will wind up on their own forum saying despicable shit, but they were probably going to do that anyway. Bad ideas love a vacuum away from prying eyes and outsiders.

    • Pissipissini Johnson 🩵! :D@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      It can lead to prison in some countries (more than I imagine you’d think), which I think is very bad.

      Also, the opposite of what you’re describing can happen. Governments and big media/tech companies can use censorship to prevent ideas they don’t like from spreading online.