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It's relevant to a discussion of free-speech absolutism in a public forum. Free speech as a principle is valuable and if the cost of millions of people being ab
by astine 8y ago
It's relevant to a discussion of free-speech absolutism in a public forum. Free speech as a principle is valuable and if the cost of millions of people being able to express their views is that one random Nazi gets to have his say, then I think most people would think that it's worth it. If that one Nazi were to turn into a thousand Nazis, then I suspect people would be more circumspect about the whole thing. So the question about how prevalent hate-speech is on Reddit has a lot to say about to what extent Reddit will be willing to censor its users.
- 0x445442 8y ago> If that one Nazi were to turn into a thousand Nazis, then I suspect people would be more circumspect about the whole thing. Why? I mean what do you care how many people say the earth is flat? As for Nazis, Antifia and whatever other group you care to use an example, it seems like we already have a descent set of laws in place to protect people from direct harm from those groups. I'm sorry but I think what's going on at these social media companies and with the legacy media is blatant political censorship.