Asking questions, eh? What a troublesome fellow you are. Ban him!

I don't like banning stuff. You can't challenge sexism, racism, ableism and anti LGBT sentiments if you're busy banning them.
You can't challenge socialism and fascism if you're banning them.

In a debate "ban" equates to automatic defeat.


That said for Child Pornography. Ban it!

And then reeducate everyone to ensure that the People's Republic remains a safe space for special snowflakes.

Ban porn. It wastes people's time, turns them to horny monsters and changes their sexy model to something unreachable.

Psychologically and pragmatically harmful.

No more ponies and shipfus?

I'm sure Kaiser-sama doesn't wanna ban all those things.

This works as well.

No.
Always.

Namely because I enjoy deriding, criticising, mocking and brow beating people who are clearly retarded or have a pole shoved up their arse. If their position is censored, regardless of how utterly deranged it is no one can point at it and illustrate how stupid it is.

If an idea is to stand it is to stand on its own merits.

Whether people find that offensive or not is neither here nor there claiming something is offensive and should be censored either by government action or self censorship or private institutions censoring expression doesn't change the fact that the point in question was correct and had merit regardless whether it appreciated the feelings of others or not.

Expression can be banned IMO if it carries the unambiguous intent to harm (through advocacy or deception). And what defines harm, I think should be tied specifically to legality. There's that yelling fire in a crowded theater example.

I despise soft censorship that uses social shaming to browbeat people into changing their behaviour or what they say. It just creates disenfranchisement instead of actually addressing the ideas or behaviour at play. If you think what someone says/does is sexist, then explain why and confront them directly. Don't go out of your way to take away the platform they use. The stuff we hear about university campuses and student groups banning speakers or disrupting events because they want to create a "safe space" is probably one of the more prevalent and disgusting ways this behaviour manifests in the western world.

Of all the places in the world, you'd think Universities would be a place where you can express a dissenting opinion without fear of censorship.