re: #633 reuven

Here’s an intereseting one.

TED, the company that hosts forums that calls itself “ideas worth spreading” censored a comment made to a talk about Free Speech.

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According to TED, the comment was removed because it had too many “mark as offensive” votes from readers. The prophesy in the comment has come true!

I don’t find that interesting or illuminating. The comment was an incendiary ad-hom attack on the speaker. TED ins’t in the business of providing a forum to extremists. It exists to provide a forum for discussion and exposition of philosophy, science, technology, and the arts. I fail to see how deleting a personal attack on the speaker counts as censorship, any more than kicking a belligerent drunk out of a bar counts as discrimination.