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> Android has removed Gab and other free speech apps from it's appstore, too Gab was removed for hate speech, not free speech.
by radley 7y ago
> Android has removed Gab and other free speech apps from it's appstore, too
Gab was removed for hate speech, not free speech.
- romaaeterna 7y agoWhat a hateful comment about Gab users! Surely we don't need to muzzle you? Edit: (And what hateful downvotes!)
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- fennecfoxen 7y agoYou say that as if a meaningful, non-political distinction can ever be made between "hate speech" and "free speech".
- zapita 7y agoDo you consider the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to be political? If so: you are equipped with the necessary building blocks to define hate speech in a non-political way. If not: your definition of “political” is so broad as to be meaningless.
- voldacar 7y ago>Do you consider the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to be political? Well yes tbh. The fact that a certain group of people in power at a certain point in history made a "universal declaration" about something says very little about whether I or anyone else should care about it or agree with it. In other words it is the epitome of political. I am happy to make up my own mind on the nature of "human rights".
- rndgermandude 7y agoIt is clearly political, and not so universal either by the way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_Declaration_on_Human_Rights_in_Islam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_Declaration_on_Human_Rig...
- fennecfoxen 7y agoIf the Cairo Declaration in and of itself gives us all the building blocks that allow us to define hate-speech in a non-political way, then what was the purpose of the Rabat Plan of Action, with all its rapporteurs and its workshops on four continents? Do you believe that process was not a political process?
- busymom0 7y agoHate speech is protected under free speech. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_in_the_United_States#Supreme_Court_case_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_in_the_United_Stat...
- aaronbrethorst 7y agoThe First Amendment says: "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech" A company removing an app is not Congress making a law that abridges anyone's freedom of speech. This isn't a First Amendment issue.
- SkyBelow 7y agoAnd Apple is the one who choose to ban the application from the iOS store. The distinction between corporation and government is not clear cut in the modern era.