alt Hacker NewsMost evil groups have "good" and "innocent" names in order to attract a following. The "Worker's Party of Korea" sounds like a great party for all Koreans out there to vote on. Likewise, the "National Socialist German Workers' Party" sounds, on paper, like a great political party for the German labourers out there.
Unfortunately, both the WPK and the NSDAP are very evil organisations, with no real intentions of helping actual workers, but the names of their organisations wouldn't reveal that.
You can't look at the name of an organisation to find out what their values and hidden agendas are. Names are the most valuable assets in any effective propaganda, and should therefore be seen as completely untrustworthy.
The "Free Speech Union" don't just have "controversial views", they are actively spreading disinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.
I agree about names in general but I know how fraught the topic of free speech is these days. I am a free speech absolutist in the same spirit as Voltaire.
>The "Free Speech Union" don't just have "controversial views", they are actively spreading disinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.
The whole point of free speech rights is to protect speech that is disagreeable! COVID-19 "misinformation" censorship is a major pet peeve of mine. Just as with your point about names, people lie all the time about what constitutes "misinformation", "harmful", etc. Doctors and researchers were paid off and had their careers threatened for daring to question government policy in this case. Everyone else was threatened to force them to comply. This is not how science or freedom works. We're not talking about some zombie virus. We're talking about a disease with a very low mortality rate even at its peak, and a vaccine that objectively did not stop the spread. If a researcher did want to criticize the vax, they'd risk their career. So get f'd or get paid, some hard decision right? If politicians can be bought then so can researchers.
Some of the powers that be would love you to give them the authority to censor people to influence your pet issues. They would declare your views to be misinformation or hate speech just as soon as you become inconvenient to them.