Censorship Bubbles Vs Hate Bubbles

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21503594
AutoresWendy Xin (0000-0003-2694-9751, Discipline of Philosophy, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume38
Fascículo4
Páginas446-457
Data de publicação2024-07-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial Epistemology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0269-1728 • E-ISSN: 1464-5297
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02691728.2023.2274324
OpenAlexW4388421007
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas29

In this paper, I argue that considerations of epistemic bubbles can give us reason to defend censorship of hate speech. Although censoring hate speech leads to epistemic bubbles (‘censorship bubbles’), they tend to be less epistemically problematic than epistemic bubbles generated by the circulation of hate speech (‘hate bubbles’). Because hate speech silences its target groups and creates the illusion that the dominant group identities are threatened, hate bubbles are likely more restrictive in structure than censorship bubbles and have a stronger tendency to turn into echo chambers where opposing views are actively discredited. Therefore, I argue that censorship bubbles might be a minor price we ought to pay to avoid hate bubbles. Additionally, my analysis shows that we cannot focus exclusively on the content or the structure of epistemic bubbles, since their content can partly determine their structure, as is in the case of hate bubbles

Censorship · Cognitive psychology · Cosmic censorship hypothesis · Economics · Epistemology · Illusion · Physics · Political science · Sociology · Theoretical physics · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology