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According to your newspaper analogy, message boards are more akin to public spaces (privately owned). A government banning them because there can be some disse

• gamblor956 8y ago
  According to your newspaper analogy, message boards are more akin to public spaces (privately owned). A privately owned space is not a public space...It's literally the opposite of a public space. A government banning them because there can be some dissent speeches is equal to banning a pub because someone has said unpleasant things. Nope, not even close. There's a difference between illegal acts and "unpleasant things." It's like the difference between a nuclear weapon and a starter pistol. The best thing you can do as message board owners is flagging the specific message as being offensive. Unless it breaks specific rules/laws, where you must remove the content, of course. No, from the perspective of a message board, the best thing you can do is not let shit like that even infiltrate your board. If people want to spread and incite hate, they're free to spend their own resources running a message board where that's okay.