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0 pointslanevorockz6y ago0 comments

Completely agree with you and it makes me depressed that we are living on an age that we are giving up the imperfectness of humans in exchange for fake puritanism on a standard that cannot be achieved by anyone.

I bet everyone here has one opinion that can definitely and very quickly destroy their lives. Let people be wrong, let them speak, let them think ... We can then convince and converge into a common good. Cancelling the guy that gave his life for the cause is appalling and is showing how evil social media is.

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widowlark6y ago

... MIT fired him not Facebook - you are not required to have perfect opinions that everyone agrees with to survive in this world, you are just required to voice them appropriately and at the correct times, which Stallman did not. Stop pretending that Free Speech is something that applies to anything other than citizens having protection from governments

ng126y ago

The problem is the witch hunting. Invariably the wrongthink gets "leaked" to the bottom-dweller clickbait outfits like Vice or Slate who then feed it into the court of public opinion. I agree that there are a great number of things I shouldn't say at work, but that also doesn't mean I'm okay with the threat of being very publicly outed if I do. To me it's very close to the "well if you have nothing to hide" argument.

balaksakrionon6y ago

> appropriately and at the correct times

Where and by whom is appropriateness and timeliness determined?

widowlark6y ago

private institutions, and mostly at their whim and discretion

dangxiaopin6y ago

So if it was Berkeley (a state school), he should have not been fired?

widowlark6y ago

Yes, this has already been addressed. He would have been more protected if it was a state school.

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