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Just be aware that it's a double edged sword. Mass acceptance of censorship makes it easy to stifle societal progress by designating ideas which you disagree with as extremist content. We are lucky that the people currently at the helm of tech industry happen to hold mostly liberal views that we broadly agree with. If that was not the case, the same argument could have been used by them to suppress many left-wing/progressive ideas that you may hold dear.

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If you prove that views are damaging, you are not entitled to protections in any shape or form.

And who decides what’s damaging?

A court of your peers.

We live in a society.

Have you seen Twitter? The mass flagging of banalities as offensive? Online shaming? This isn't as practical as stated.

Are you making a moral statement, or asserting the current state of the law in the US, which is the jurisdiction at issue?

I mean, there is so much wrong with this statement, and not like thorny philosophical problems to be teased apart with careful interrogation, but just basic definitional problems as well as issues that would make its implementation impossible that are so obvious a kid repeating the fourth grade could spot them toot suite.

Historic hypothetical: Do you think Nancy Reagan could have convinced damn near every conceivable jury in the country in that rap music and the views therein caused damage? What does that do your little draft constitutional amendment there?

I think it would not bebhard to find your view damaging, I'm fact your expression of that view gas already caused specific damage to me because you made me sad for you. As well, such pro-censorship expressions threaten the very core of America The Idea, which idea brings a great many positive things and clarity to the world, the loss of which would be obviously damaging to millions.

How would your subversive and damaging views survive in the dystopia you seek?

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