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Im assuming you are ok with shutting down twitter, facebook, and other social media platforms for allowing far left and extreme islamic terrorist ideologies?
by thatonechad 9y ago
Im assuming you are ok with shutting down twitter, facebook, and other social media platforms for allowing far left and extreme islamic terrorist ideologies?
- zichy 9y agoFuck centrists.
- sctb 9y agoCould you please stop breaking the guidelines and post more substantively than this? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- ZeroGravitas 9y agoDid twitter suggest that it wanted to host terrorist material due to an uncompromising commitment to free speech? I assume if you gave them a magic wand to wave that would remove all terrorist material then twitter would wave it. Could Gab say the same?
- cosmiccartel 9y agoWe're not talking about terrorist material. We're talking about speech. Holding and voicing controversial ideas is not terrorism.
- WorldMaker 9y agoWords have the power to terrorize people. They build fear. You have to really split hairs to not call that terrorism.
- thatonechad 9y agoYou realize that the offending post was making a remark about a fat person, not terrorism.
- detaro 9y agoHas a specific post been named? source?
- thatonechad 9y agohttp://www.occidentaldissent.com/2017/09/05/gab-now-under-the-kosher-cloud-of-censorship-threatened-with-domain-seizure/ http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2017/09/05/gab-now-under-th... According to this. Scroll down and you can see the post says INTERNET FATTIES something or other. Unless im missing the context it seems pretty ridiculous.
- WorldMaker 9y agoArs Technica journalists say the problem posts in question were anti-Semitic. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/twitter-rival-gab-faces-domain-loss-over-extremist-content/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/twitter-rival-ga...
- WorldMaker 9y agoI was unaware that the thread I was replying to was debating specifics rather than handwaving at generalities like freedom of speech.
- cosmiccartel 9y agoEquating speech with terrorism builds fear in me. According to your logic, your own comment is terrorism. Unless you really want to split hairs.
- WorldMaker 9y agoNot all speech is equal in building fear/stress/intimidation. Bomb/death/dismemberment threats are very different from the content of my comment. While most of us feel like we can shrug off threats and "words can't hurt me", that isn't actually true [1], it is possible for a campaign of terrorism (in terms of "intimidation [through fear] for a political aim") to be enacted solely in words. Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences, and words have consequences in the way the brain processes them, even if we want to keep arguing whether or not it is valid for speech to also warrant consequences such as a private company (domain registrar) refusing to do business with another private company. [1] It is something of a comfortable lie that we tell school children to avoid what actual science/psychology tells us is stressful/harmful to humans.
- dogma1138 9y agoYC21 Ministry of Truth is hiring full stack engineers.
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- api 9y agoWhat's Gab's policy on advocating terrorism? Has this user been terminated? https://archive.fo/D70Yr https://archive.fo/D70Yr