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Lumifer comments on Open Thread March 21 - March 27, 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: johnlawrenceaspden 23 March 2016 05:18:32PM 0 points [-]

He's a witch. Burn him already, on balance of probabilities.

Except, do we want to censor commercial speech per se. If people are being paid to say interesting things, why not? If people are talking rubbish and spamming, shouldn't we have a mechanism for silencing them irrespective of whether they're getting money?

I'm ranting insanely about the thyroid-bee in my empiricist-bonnet, totally for free! Why not ban me?

Comment author: Lumifer 23 March 2016 06:55:28PM 7 points [-]

The issue is not with commercial speech. The issue is with misrepresentation and deception.