Giles comments on Schelling fences on slippery slopes - Less Wrong

179 Post author: Yvain 16 March 2012 11:44PM

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Comment author: taw 14 March 2012 09:39:25AM 12 points [-]

In parts of Europe, they've banned Holocaust denial for years and everyone's been totally okay with it.

You should look closer, they're banning speech left and right all across Europe under variety of trivial reasons.

Comment author: Giles 17 March 2012 04:27:11PM 3 points [-]

I thought that libel tourism was basically a UK thing, which doesn't have a law against Holocaust denial.

I guess I'm saying:

Different nations can have different Schelling fences
Some nations can establish Schelling fences and others can be on slippery slopes. The strategy of the nations with Schelling fences would depend on the extent to which they care about the other nations.