Do you truly, genuinely think that is what people want, or are you constructing a straw man to beat up? Do you care to make a point, or are you just asking leading questions that create the illusion that you're making a point?
I can't honestly believe you don't think there are a lot of people who want that. They've been very up front about it.
Michelle Carter convinced her boyfriend to commit suicide over text messages and was convicted for it. I don’t know if I disagree that trying to use speech to convince a sick person into suicide shouldn’t be legal.
But at the same time I’m generally a free speech proponent and find jailing people for speech abhorrent. But I struggle to believe all speech should be legal if it knowingly ruins lives or causes death.
There's really no justification for extreme measures to deal with this problem, especially when the potential side-effects largely outweigh any potential gains.
People try to say that things are different now with tech, that conspiracies are spreading faster. But what is also spreading faster and is 10x more popular than conspiracy theories is alarmist news and pearl clutching that society won't be able to deal with it without widespread censorship.
People need to step away from Twitter and take a deep breath. We can handle it.
Many do want something like this--as long as someone with their viewpoint is the one deciding what is true or false.
>asking leading questions that create the illusion that you're making a point?
It's called a rhetorical question.
A rhetorical question usually has an answer too obvious for any need to answer
A leading question creates a discussion on some topic, using the question instead of some new information or rational argument, to move the baseline assumptions of the discussion