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>Saying that white nationalists, despite their inherently violent nature, deserve a platform is categorically support. What? There's no room to support the rig
by bscphil 8y ago
>Saying that white nationalists, despite their inherently violent nature, deserve a platform is categorically support.
What? There's no room to support the right of certain people to speak without "supporting" them? "Deserving a platform" is a total red herring here. There's room to worry about the largest platform in the world suppressing speech without claiming that those it suppresses "deserved" that platform.
>despite the fact that we as a society have said hate speech should not be tolerated
I can't believe you are serious at this point, because it is just so obviously untrue. Have you read what people have had to say in this thread at all? Are you aware that the position of the ACLU is that not only is "hate speech" to be tolerated, it is protected by the First Amendment in the US? https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/free-speech-can-be-messy-we-need-it https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/free-speech-can-be-mes...
I say this as someone who's pretty okay with Facebook taking down white nationalist stuff. As big as it is, Facebook simply isn't big enough to create major worries about controlling speech. My problem is that you're not making an argument here at all; you haven't really come to terms with the fact that quite a few reasonable people disagree with you.
- ratling 8y ago> What? There's no room to support the right of certain people to speak without "supporting" them? When their speech is to advocate violence against every other group that isn't like them? No there isn't.