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And Jack Churchill captured Nazi outposts with a longbow and a broadsword, but if allies armed every soldier with longbows and broadswords, something tells me that we'd be under Nazi occupation to this day.

Some great things are done by great people, but they don't necessarily scale well.




This misses the point (that the author of OPs post nailed). It doesn't matter that it doesn't scale. It works, and censorship doesn't.

Do you want a (difficult) method that works (personal involvement and direct conversation), or a simple, easy, lazy one (deplatforming/cancel/censorship) that doesn't?


Censorship comes with its own problems, but if your position is that it flat out doesn't work, you'd need a more convincing argument.

Nazi censored. Stalin censored. Xi censors. Seems hard to explain if censorship doesn't work.


>Nazi censored. Stalin censored. Xi censors. Seems hard to explain if censorship doesn't work.

Nazis also killed the speakers. Stalin killed the speakers. Xi kills the speakers.

Citing mass genociders as "censorship works" is hilariously bad evidence of censorship working when terminating the speaker most definitely works.


Sure it worked. Using a nuclear warhead works to solve your ant infestation, too.

We want something that works and that doesn't have the nasty side-effects. Nazi, Stalin, and Xi's tactics aren't the answer we're looking for.




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