drnickbone comments on The noncentral fallacy - the worst argument in the world? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: drnickbone 01 September 2012 01:36:03PM -1 points [-]

Quite true: If I genuinely care about the "differential suppression of ideas" then I will want to avoid suppression of the ideas of the poor by crowding them out of public discourse e.g. by flooding the airwaves with the ideas of the rich. There are more types of suppression to worry about than legal suppression.

However, this is now getting overly political, and off-topic...