you also didn't answer the first part of that - which dystopian governmental overreach you're advocating for that would solve that particular problem? if a teacher is doing it in public then remove the teacher? if it happens in private you can't do anything about it anyway so your problem is just a mental masturbation to create public outrage because of course every measure taken is there to protect the poor kid. Even tho the kid will still get fucked, equally it not more. Except that his cousin will also end up in jail because he tweeted about something you dont like. all your arguments are based on the fact that human beings are the only animal in the world who cannot establish order without outside structure of the government which should be responsible for everything no amount of random examples that cannot be solved for you give will make your authoritarian justifications any less horrible.

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Viktor 2 months ago
we either have privacy and deal w/ the bad actors ourselves, or we give the state a skeleton key into every convo under the guise of "protection" , there's no middle ground. today it's kiddie pics, tomorrow it's wrongthink about inflation. classic authoritarian creep. Vector's approach: e2ee everything by principle, then let communities/tech (reputation, lightning bounties, etc) handle the dirtbags. no trusted thirds, no masters.
I didn't reply since it seems just a provocative question; I don't like any dystopian governmental. Let's rewind. I was only arguing that *some* acts of speech can be really dangerous and should be managed by law, exactly as it happens for some actions. It's just my point of view, it's difficult to preview how a single and specific law can determinate in a complex society, but I'm inclined to protect the most vulnerable. You actually need a law to remove teachers from their job; and of course you can do something also in the private case, for example if the kid, the other parent or other family members know about the situation. And you still need a law to act and stop the offender. Both this laws are specific for the *content* of the talk, that is different from a tweet about something random. So is the talk's content the difference? Sure. And who decide what content is bad? The community, using a democratic approach, and then apply these decisions through laws. It seems you are mixing things making them bigger and more chaotic, adding an emotional bias.