A quotation from Addison, Joseph:
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My friend Sir Roger heard them both upon a round trot; and after having paused some time, told them with an air of a man who would not give his judgment rashly, that “much might be said on both sides.”
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https://wist.info/addison-joseph/1439/
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@frankie @unfa You’ve addressed this in terms of 1 specific legal implementation of #freeSpeech: #1A (US Constitution 1st amendment). But in the platforming/deplatforming context the impediment is to free speech principles not a legal implementation thereof. It boils down to an #equivocation fallacy: your opponent refers to a body of principles & philosophy & you superimpose the legal definition
@gustav @selea Indeed, specifically it’s the #equivocation fallacy. But in any case, I will not email a #Gmail user, & in fact I will not even disclose an email address to a Gmail user (even though my email addresses are generally temp random gibberish anyway, the sender will still put my name in the metadata).
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Toot Redux (first published 21st February 2021)
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