Erickson COVID-19 Video Being Mass-Deleted
Almost no matter where you stand on the issues, you should be extremely alarmed at the fact that deleting and censoring heterodox material from the internet--which basically means anything that questions progressive orthodoxy--has become routine.
More generally, we should be alarmed about any view that deems disagreement with it impermissible. We should be especially alarmed when that view is extremely influential and powerful.
There's this quaint American view that the remedy for (allegedly) bad speech is more speech.
[Note: that's not to say that I thought they were right. The thing went on interminably, so I didn't watch it all. They were just MDs, which doesn't make you a statistician. And they seemed to be drawing on a small sample without much reason to believe it was representative. Rejecting their view or rebutting it is one thing (well...that's two things, actually...). Deleting it is another.]
More generally, we should be alarmed about any view that deems disagreement with it impermissible. We should be especially alarmed when that view is extremely influential and powerful.
There's this quaint American view that the remedy for (allegedly) bad speech is more speech.
[Note: that's not to say that I thought they were right. The thing went on interminably, so I didn't watch it all. They were just MDs, which doesn't make you a statistician. And they seemed to be drawing on a small sample without much reason to believe it was representative. Rejecting their view or rebutting it is one thing (well...that's two things, actually...). Deleting it is another.]
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