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> But harassment, threats and suchlike no one wants to get. Sender may be happy to send it, while receiver is not happy to receive. We need not to resort to a good for a society explaining, why these should be banned.

How many people like getting criticism of any form? Should we ban all criticism?



While “don’t like to get” isn’t the right principle to decide what to ban, suggesting an equivalence between harassment and criticism is not pretty.


I don't think the difference is all that clear cut, or at least there is a lot of behaviour that has overlap where it is unclear which side things fall.

Like take a protest (for whatever issue you want). Is that criticism or harrasment? Or both?


No we shouldn't.




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