We arent behaving appropriately IRL so i am not sure why youre setting higher standards for being online.
The internet has been out for less time than some people have been alive. Are we sure we, as a species, know how to be an adult on the internet yet?
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
tomiant@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Free speech has been out for as long as humanity has existed, and every attempt at limiting it has ended badly.
partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Not really. Free speech is a cultural construct. It doesn’t exist without a huge swath of pre-agreed norms regarding rights, speech, freedom, … I’ll have you know, there are modern philosophers who argue against human rights. They would say human rights language pretends to be objective and universal, but it floats without a metaphysical anchor (unlike in the past) and in practice they only exist if a sovereign power recognizes them.