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Where you draw the line? And who is drawing it? Will you be equally happy when conservatives will use the same tools against opinions they see as dangerous?
Who draws it? The government?!
What could go wrong? Assange and Manning would like a word with you.
I think the line is being drawn at "don't sympathize with ~~terrorist groups~~ an opressive theocratic government" (publicly stating "at least the taliban know what a woman is") and "don't directly fund hate groups".
(Edited, see comment below)
Terrorist for ones are maybe freedom fighters for others - kind of sketchy line over there.
When you woke up today did you decide you were gonna make excuses for the Taliban right there and then or did it kinda just happen? Holy shit.
Taliban are obviously the only terrorist group on the planet and rebels were never before labeled as terrorists.
Which other terrorist group did that TERF sympathize with?
How should I know? I personally don't follow those crazy people.
Slippery slope fallacy "You're okay with the government saying certain ingredients can't go in food? Where does that stop? Will you be equally happy when a government you disagree with uses the same tools to dictate everything that goes in your food?"
"You're okay with the government saying certain areas are off limits to the general public? Where do you draw the line? Will you be equally happy when a different government uses the same tools to forbid you from leaving your home?"
Is this specific step reasonable? Then it's okay. When they try to take an unreasonable step then it is appropriate to do something about it.
My argument is more, that while I trust at least some governments with deciding on what food is safe, I don't trust governments at all with decisions about what speech is permitted.
"But what if conservatives ape what you're doing and make shit up?" is an all-purpose argument against doing anything.
"But what if conservatives call you a terrorist?" is both a real problem that happened to people, and an obviously shite reason to say "therefore let's not fight terrorism."
Stop treating "but who decides?" like a table-slapping counterargument. Every law has a line. Unless you're an outright anarchist, someone has to draw a line, somewhere, and choosing not to draw a sensible one never seems to stop assholes from drawing an unreasonable one. I mean for fuck's sake, have you seen American states censoring school libraries for fear of acknowledging queer people? That's not some backlash or ironic reversal. They're just bastards. The fact they'll latch onto whatever we're doing, as an excuse, doesn't make us responsible for their bastardry.
Yeah, so let's not play their game and not give governments any tools to be able to censor anyone. In best case in some constitutional form.