Free speech absolutism requires supporting someone's "right" to, as the classic example has it, "falsely shout 'Fire!' in a crowded theater.". Because that's what inciting violence, whether it is done explicitly or implicitly, amounts to.
Once you recognize how nonsensical that is, people like Kirk or Limbaugh are seen to be the sociopaths that they are.
2025-09-14 23:34:26
Partly checking on how things work here.
the idea that the algorithm made him is not an argument I want to make,
I get really tired of the suggestions that people have no agency. Sure, if you immerse yourself in crazy, it may make you crazy (or crazier). But nobody forced you to go there. And nobody forced you to play out computer games in the real world on real people.
One could as well argue that Kavanaugh raped a girl while he was in college because he was immersed in a frat boy culture which encouraged that kind of behavior.
None of which is to suggest that the algorithms used by web browsers and search engines are not deeply problematic. But you're still responsible for your own actions.
Free speech absolutism requires supporting someone's "right" to, as the classic example has it, "falsely shout 'Fire!' in a crowded theater.". Because that's what inciting violence, whether it is done explicitly or implicitly, amounts to.
Once you recognize how nonsensical that is, people like Kirk or Limbaugh are seen to be the sociopaths that they are.
Partly checking on how things work here.
the idea that the algorithm made him is not an argument I want to make,
I get really tired of the suggestions that people have no agency. Sure, if you immerse yourself in crazy, it may make you crazy (or crazier). But nobody forced you to go there. And nobody forced you to play out computer games in the real world on real people.
One could as well argue that Kavanaugh raped a girl while he was in college because he was immersed in a frat boy culture which encouraged that kind of behavior.
None of which is to suggest that the algorithms used by web browsers and search engines are not deeply problematic. But you're still responsible for your own actions.