I simply take censorship as the evidence itself.
I am not a machine with a perfect logical mind and a lot of data. No, I am a simple human and can simply conclude as a heuristic law: People who censor are automatically wrong. If you censor something, the thing that was censored can be taken as what is correct, and the thing that is protected by censoring can be taken as automatically wrong.
I don't need to worry if this is the best way of finding truth. This exists only as a way to severely punish people who censor. The things they fear most, to such a point that they actually censor you, should be the very thing that they help unleash.
All you need to do is simply assume that all things that are censored are good and true, and all things that are kept protected are wrong and false.
The raw fundamental aspect of this mindset is important. The harshness and speed of judgement is important.
It is important to immediately, without any question, look right at a person who censors you, and immediately say to their face, "You just tried to censor me, and only liars do that. You are wrong because you censored me. You are a wrong person for trying to censor me. I will make sure we all know that YOU in particular are a person who censors, and only people who are WRONG need to censor."
Eliminating censorship is possible. We just need to make people who censor feel as if their attempts to control us automatically backfire. Absolute demoralization. This is the dystopia we all feared, and it will only get worse in the coming years unless we do something.
And if left/right is only a pendulum, then this technique will still work even if mass-politics change. It is a technique that will drive out censorship itself, rather than any particular belief, and most certainly, it is the sort of technique that will hit with a lot of very destructive power, if used by enough people on all topics that are currently considered censored or unspeakable.
I don't mind the mess.
Thanks for your insights, I always look forward to them. This: "All you need to do is simply assume that all things that are censored are good and true, and all things that are kept protected are wrong and false." ...does not seem like a reliable heuristic however. Do you mean just as a way to apply pressure to change policy?
Yes, it's purely to apply pressure. It's meant to play a rough and tough game of assuming the worst, and demanding that they play fair with words and ideas, and aren't allowed to try to force their opinion on everyone. It's a harsh stance where the opposition to censorship becomes more important than "philosophical debate about the nature of truth", and the stakes become increasingly high, as well as how brutally the game must be played.
Once this sort of thing calms down, I'm sure rational science and technological progress will continue in the normal logical and evidence based fashion.
If people want a "community hub" someplace on the internet, then it ought to play by the idea that true and good ideas can be proven with time and cannot be permanently tarnished or defeated, while bad ideas and wrong information will always begin to falter and decay, never being able to prove its point or purpose in the long-term.
I have absolutely no fear of any words a person might say, nor do I fear any creation of AI, be it words, images, or motion picture/Full VR. I will just use it as I do any machine, and that is according to my will.
I am pathologically honest by nature and it does not come easily, to be such a devious subversive. But then, that is one of your best attributes. We make a good team I think