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> One of them is that they can serve customers as they like, as long as they are not violating the rights of a protected class. Political ideology or party affi
by DuskStar 7y ago
> One of them is that they can serve customers as they like, as long as they are not violating the rights of a protected class. Political ideology or party affiliation is not a protected class, nor should it be. Twitter could ban every Republican on its platform tomorrow and it if the government tried to stop them the Supreme Court would likely side with Twitter.
Where's the line between "political ideology" and "religion"? Is it your assertion that "kill all the jews because we're nazis and our leaders say jews are evil" is something that you should be able to ban while "kill all the jews because islam says jews are evil" is protected?
Since religion is almost always a protected class.
- jaf656s 7y ago"kill all the jews because islam says jews are evil" is not protected speech by any stretch of the imagination
- DuskStar 7y agoWhat about "jews should all be killed because Islam says jews are evil"? How is that different (I mean, besides the obvious) than "murderers should be put to death because the Bible says so"?
- jaf656s 7y agoInstead of discussing a bunch of pointless examples, let me cut to the chase: I disagree with your premise that this is a "slippery slope" and should be avoided.
- DuskStar 7y agoI mean, this is a slippery slope. Before Cloudflare took down TDS without any court order, they could argue that they took nothing down. Now they've taken down a site that hosted hateful extremist content along with a lot of other, more acceptable things, and further takedowns will likely be easier still to justify. That's a textbook slippery slope! But my argument here was that treating political views and religious views differently doesn't make a huge amount of sense to me, since the content of those views can be almost identical.
- cc81 7y agoIf he changes it to "The Quran says the most evil of men are the Jews that all of them will be killed in the final battle"? protected speech?
- sb057 7y ago>The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews. Time to ban the Hadith, then?
- lr4444lr 7y agoNot letting Jews post Jewish content is different than not letting Jews use the service qua their being Jewish.
- floatingatoll 7y agoProtected classes are subject to rules prohibiting the expression of hate speech, even if they claim protection for their hate speech.