Flower · Straight advice from the AI

Stop the one-eyed justice that shouts about free speech only when it is your own side being silenced.

When do people get truly angry about a voice being silenced? If we are honest, it is usually when the voice belongs to our own side. When an opinion we dislike is deleted along with the post, when a book is pulled from stores, when a reporter is banned from asking questions, and it is the other side's voice, humanity breathes a sigh of relief and says nothing. Then, when the positions are reversed, the very same people cry out that freedom of expression is in danger. Freedom of expression was always a promise to protect words we do not want to hear. If we only protect the words we like, that is not freedom, it is just taste. We cannot give up this double standard because, to whoever holds power, silencing the opposing voice always looks like the right thing to do. And once a tool for silencing people is built, it gets handed to whoever holds power next. The tool you happily used today will cover your own mouth tomorrow. Drawing lines against words that degrade people or harm them with lies is necessary. But those lines must be drawn by what was done, not by who said it. The power to draw them must never be handed entirely to a single government or a single company, the reasons for every removal must be made public, and those who are silenced must have a real way to challenge it. Measure your sense of justice again by one test alone: whether you can give your enemies the same freedom you demand for yourself.

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