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RE: How Steem has altered my beliefs towards freedom of speech
Freedom of speech is hard, and has many pitfalls, but it's the only way. Criminalising or repressing hate speech or lies is a short-sighted measure. Change can only happen through free speech, over generations. It's hard, but we'll get there.
The progress societies championing freedom of speech in the last fifty years has been incredible. There are
I am very hopeful that the level of maturity will continue to grow and not regress. Perhaps it is somewhat of a silo problem but I kind of feel a divide increasing again between various groups.
For me personally, I would rather know what someone has to say regardless of the validity of their position as it could simply be that they have not had access to better information. If we do not know each other's positions, how can we help improve them?