<story><title>India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/29/india-bans-tiktok-dozens-of-other-chinese-apps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bad_user</author><text>The paradox of tolerance is bullshit though, as it&amp;#x27;s not based on empirical evidence.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s just armchair philosophy used as justification for intolerance by intellectuals, the mental gymnastic people need to get over their cognitive dissonance.&lt;p&gt;AFAIK Plato came up with it to justify autocracy. That says it all actually.</text></item><item><author>mathnmusic</author><text>I think this sort of response was inevitable and will be seen in more and more nations. China bans most of the popular websites and apps (including Wikipedia). The most recent trigger was the border standoff between India and China where Indian citizens could see and read both governments&amp;#x27; responses, but Chinese citizens were only told Chinese govt&amp;#x27;s talking points.&lt;p&gt;This seems like yet another instance of the paradox of tolerance (reciprocity is a must have for a tolerant&amp;#x2F;liberal&amp;#x2F;globalized society): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Paradox_of_tolerance&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Paradox_of_tolerance&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>panopticon</author><text>This seems like a really wild stance to take on a paradox. Paradoxes aren&amp;#x27;t principles, laws, or theories. They&amp;#x27;re just self-contradictory or logically contrary statements; they don&amp;#x27;t require &amp;quot;empirical evidence&amp;quot; outside of the reasoning laid out in the paradox itself.&lt;p&gt;It would be better to say that people shouldn&amp;#x27;t use a paradox as evidence for something (e.g., claim aliens must exist because of Fermi&amp;#x27;s Paradox).</text></comment>
<story><title>India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/29/india-bans-tiktok-dozens-of-other-chinese-apps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bad_user</author><text>The paradox of tolerance is bullshit though, as it&amp;#x27;s not based on empirical evidence.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s just armchair philosophy used as justification for intolerance by intellectuals, the mental gymnastic people need to get over their cognitive dissonance.&lt;p&gt;AFAIK Plato came up with it to justify autocracy. That says it all actually.</text></item><item><author>mathnmusic</author><text>I think this sort of response was inevitable and will be seen in more and more nations. China bans most of the popular websites and apps (including Wikipedia). The most recent trigger was the border standoff between India and China where Indian citizens could see and read both governments&amp;#x27; responses, but Chinese citizens were only told Chinese govt&amp;#x27;s talking points.&lt;p&gt;This seems like yet another instance of the paradox of tolerance (reciprocity is a must have for a tolerant&amp;#x2F;liberal&amp;#x2F;globalized society): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Paradox_of_tolerance&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Paradox_of_tolerance&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dvt</author><text>I think you&amp;#x27;re going to get heavily downvoted (HN loves the paradox of tolerance), but I wholeheartedly agree. I think it&amp;#x27;s complete nonsense, not to mention that its spirit is much better represented by older ideas (e.g. Mill&amp;#x27;s Harm Principle). &amp;quot;Tolerance&amp;quot; is kind of a weasel word anyway, essentially giving carte blanche to the one that invokes the paradox.</text></comment>