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Qiaochu_Yuan comments on New censorship: against hypothetical violence against identifiable people - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 25 December 2012 12:05:42AM *  3 points [-]

I can't say whether I agree or disagree until you precise the meaning of the qualifiers "particular" and "certain".

"Criminal incitement" and "the risk of being arrested," then. In other time periods, substitute "blasphemy" and "the risk of being burned at the stake."

if the members shouldn't be free to write about certain class of topics because they may misjudge how the society at large would react

They shouldn't be free to write about certain topics with the name of their organization attached to that writing, which is the case here. They can write about anything they want anonymously and with no organization's name attached because that doesn't entail the other members of the organization taking on any risk.

If the rationale is that which you say, returning back from abolitionists to LW, shouldn't the policy be "any post that is in conflict with LW interest can be deleted" rather than the overly specific rule concerning violence and only violence?

Sure.

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