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>If hate speech was look at with the same level of disgust as child porn, would the above statement still hold true? Of course this is a slippery slope where y
by devalgo 6y ago
>If hate speech was look at with the same level of disgust as child porn, would the above statement still hold true?
Of course this is a slippery slope where you rely on Facebook defining what hate speech is. It may seem fine to you now but there's no reason to think Facebook won't in the future start defining things you typically like to say as hate speech.
- m0zg 6y agoI have this vague suspicion that OP would change their opinion immediately after FB starts banning people for "hate speech" directed at Donald Trump and the party they do not align with, which is highly prevalent on FB. Hate speech is hate speech, am I right OP? What's good for the goose is good for the gander? Zuck should try it, just to show what that'd look like. Edit: this really ticked someone off - they went through my posts and downvoted _thirteen_ comments. How's that for "hate speech"? Keep going, bud, I don't care.
- girvo 6y agoHate speech doesn’t apply to the President of the United States, and you have to truly twist the meaning to get it to apply to your political affiliations. You’re not born with those, to make an oversimplified argument.
- m0zg 6y agoSo if I were to, hypothetically, call for Nancy Pelosi to be hanged in public or shot, would it, or would it not be "hate speech" in your opinion? Should it or should it not be allowed? Is it OK, for example, to chant "pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon"? Is it OK to suggest to "kill all cops"? Is it OK to say that "all cops are bastards"? Because it would literally take you seconds to find examples of such things on FB or twitter.
- sharkjacobs 6y agoYour point is falling flat because you don't understand the definition of the term you're talking about. "hate speech" isn't just speech which communicates the speaker's hatred of something. "hate speech" is "public speech that expresses hate or encourages violence towards a person or group based on something such as race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation".[1] [1]https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/hate-speech https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/hate-spe...
- m0zg 6y ago> Your point is falling That's just like your opinion, person of indeterminate gender Would "kill white men" or a book about "Black Fragility" qualify? I'm more of a fan of the Merriam Webster definition: "speech expressing hatred of a particular group of people". Short, sweet, unambiguous as to what "something" means in the definition you've provided.