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You can be for free speech while also unwilling to host certain speech on a platform you own & operate. I can support your right to protest, while also not perm
by ip26 8y ago
You can be for free speech while also unwilling to host certain speech on a platform you own & operate. I can support your right to protest, while also not permitting you to do it in my living room.
- bluthru 8y agoThis is about government censorship, not forcing private web sites to host the video.
- ip26 8y ago4chan is not the government. I think 4chan has gone too far on this one. They should ban neonazi propaganda. -- the grandparent
- krapp 8y ago>You can be for free speech while also unwilling to host certain speech on a platform you own & operate. In that case, you're for free speech in principle, but not in practice. Which is fair, given that free speech in practice means being willing to commit felonies.
- bduerst 8y agoI think their point was that free speech is more nuanced than the "You're either for free speech or you're not" dichotomy, and that was just one example. Even the philosophers behind free speech said that speech should be curtailed when the expression itself causes harm, and they were certainly proponents for free speech.
- dontbenebby 8y ago>Which is fair, given that free speech in practice means being willing to commit felonies. I'm not sure I follow. What "free speech" do you think is currently a felony in the US?