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Jason Mathias

Is there a censored fallacy?

"Social media are censoring conspiracy theories, therefore the conspiracy theories must be true."

People X are censoring people Y, therefore what people Y claim must be truth. 

asked on Saturday, Jan 01, 2022 01:10:01 PM by Jason Mathias

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Bo Bennett, PhD
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The claim is essentially that social media companies don't want their users posting facts and things that are true. This is just ridiculous... and a non sequitur

The fact that something is censored, does not mean that it is true and the one censoring does not want the truth revealed. Although that is one reason for censoring (like a private company removing complaints in comments from their website), there are many more legitimate reasons. The reasons needs to be established with evidence, not simply asserted.

answered on Saturday, Jan 01, 2022 01:18:52 PM by Bo Bennett, PhD

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Jason Mathias writes:

I found it, I guess there is an appeal to censorship fallacy. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Appeal_to_censorship 

posted on Saturday, Jan 01, 2022 01:37:33 PM
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account no longer exists writes:
[To Jason Mathias ]

Actually, that seems to be the opposite, when someone censors to make their statements appear true. According to the website you linked, the fallacy you mentioned would be the Galileo gambit: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Galileo_gambit

[ login to reply ] posted on Saturday, Jan 01, 2022 05:08:14 PM
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TrappedPrior (RotE) writes:

Related to this, people often claim they're being censored when they aren't, to give validity to otherwise questionable claims!

posted on Saturday, Jan 01, 2022 04:39:11 PM
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Jason Mathias writes:
[To Rationalissimus of the Elenchus]

Exactly, I see a lot of click bait titles using this tactic. Is this related to the hypnotic bait and switch ?

[ login to reply ] posted on Saturday, Jan 01, 2022 05:01:56 PM