Should Bad Ideas Be Censored？ ｜ A Critical Compass Clip
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about the dangers of censorship and why we should allow people with truly dangerous ideas to have a voice in the public sphere, so that they can be heard, debated, and challenged. We also talk about how to deal with the fallout of censorship, and how to make sure that those with dangerous ideas are heard and understood.
Transcript
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so if there are truly bad ideas we'd want to know what these bad ideas are
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who's advocating for them um and we wouldn't want people with bad ideas just hide in a corner
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like we want you want them in the public sphere yeah yeah that's the thing is that you know bad
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ideas don't don't go away uh by being banned on twitter like it's they just they just go
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underground and they fester and they they become even more potentially influential movements than
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if they were just allowed to be in the public sphere so people can accurately assess them and
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the people who are voicing them well let's make a little equation bad ideas plus isolation plus
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resentment equals some very bad reactions in the end so i think if you exclude people like that
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the now they have a purpose to or proof of their bad ideas as well yeah and they don't get people
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like you know people who do have truly very dangerous ideas um don't get discouraged or
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or have their minds changed by being censored right they that just further motivates them