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I agree completely. Not only did they lose the high ground, what did facebook, google, reddit and the rest of social media companies think was going to happen o

I agree completely. Not only did they lose the high ground, what did facebook, google, reddit and the rest of social media companies think was going to happen once they agreed to a little bit of censorship? Did they really think these anti-free speech crowd was going to go away? No. Extremists always up the ante and they are going to demand more and more censorship. I've stopped using reddit because so much of the "community" is so extreme now. They are even demanding that pro-Trump subs be banned from reddit and even calling for twitter to ban Trump's twitter account. What's going to be interesting is what these people will think when people start demanding atheist, lgbt, leftist, etc content be censored.

mindslight 9y ago
> What's going to be interesting is what these people will think when people start demanding atheist, lgbt, leftist, etc content be censored. I agree with the sentiment in principle. And I think competing walled gardens is a poor substitute for actual free speech. But I think the likely outcome is that other platforms/communities will rise for the "red team", with a similar philosophy of censorship but obviously much different community standards. Initially, I think this will drive further animosity between the two teams as they become even more isolated echo chambers. But hopefully where the two meet (eg Faceboot), people will relearn that whole thing of not discussing "religion or politics" (redundant) in polite company.