>>118474>EugenicistsIt's not an apt comparison. Eugenics are, first and foremost, wrong at a scientific level. The people who advocate for that kind of thing typically fail to understand just how similar the human genome is across the entire species, and believe that you can artificially weed autism away when its causes aren't all that clear in the first place. They justified it through "scientific" racism and phrenology, warning others of imminent biological degeneration. None of it is true.
On the other hand, information is what
informs one's actions, immediately. If you're inside a burning building looking for the exit and someone tells you it's to the left, you're going to run in that direction. And if they were wrong or lied to you, they're causing you tangible harm. If someone else knows it's bad information and they care about you, they're going to correct it. It's not only important to both propagate and crack down upon information as needed, it's the entire point of communication. It's why we have language, to convey this.
The Egyptians who erased Akhenaton from history thousands of years ago had no relation to other forms of censorship like that of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum or nazi book burnings, negative information control was agnostically used to meet certain ends, and will forever be used just like any other application of force. Even democracies have to deal with the paradox of tolerance, not even anarchists can escape it.
>You presuppose your curative actions will result in what you consider good. The ends aren't merely not justified by the means, but rather your ends are a non sequitur that your means will never arrive at.And this is something you could direct at literally any kind of political decision, even inaction itself.
>>118479>Organizations practice self-censorship because it is in their own benefit to prevent certain ideas from spreading and because they are in a position to decide what is "correct" in that space.Why are they able to decide that, and how doesn't that apply to any organization at any scale? By justifying practices for their benefit and then stating censorship has benefits t
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