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CDC gets list of forbidden words

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382 points js2 | 4 comments | 16 Dec 17 02:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.607s | source
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beebmam ◴[16 Dec 17 03:41 UTC] No.15937380[source]▶
Censoring the CDC, of all organizations. What a travesty. The entire world looks to the US CDC for guidelines.

Let's be clear: The political right in the US pretends to care about free speech until they get serious political power.

It wasn't too long ago that conservatives were strongly against the depiction of violence and sex in video games.

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1. menacingly ◴[16 Dec 17 04:55 UTC] No.15937793[source]▶
Neither end of the political spectrum is interested in free speech right now, they just use different justifications to ban the undesirable thought.
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2. smsm42 ◴[16 Dec 17 06:34 UTC] No.15938148[source]▶
Unlike the left, of course, which would never even think of instituting speech codes, banning people they don't like from speaking, violently attacking them, suppressing dissenting opinions and using governmental prosecution to win scientific disputes. Let's be clear here - nobody likes the speech they disagree with. That's why we have 1st amendment - so that people won't be tempted too much to go there. They still try all the time - I think that's why it's the first one, because it was clear that's what will start happening immediately, it was the most obvious concern.
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3. mulmen ◴[16 Dec 17 12:16 UTC] No.15939213[source]▶
I didn't say anything about the left. The comment I replied to mentioned the right pretends to care about freedom of speech until they have real political power. From my perspective they don't care about it regardless of their political power and they don't even pretend to.
4. mulmen ◴[16 Dec 17 12:19 UTC] No.15939225[source]▶
So what? The GP said the right pretends to care, I say they don't even do that. Other views on the political spectrum have nothing to do with this.