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But we all agree that hate speech should be punished by laws though, and it currently is punishable. It's that Facebook shouldn't be the one who makes that jud
by ergocoder 6y ago
But we all agree that hate speech should be punished by laws though, and it currently is punishable.
It's that Facebook shouldn't be the one who makes that judgement.
And that's my point. We should get a court to make that judgement.
- quotemstr 6y agoNo, we don't all agree on that. That's my entire point. The position you're espousing is not shared by a big enough fraction of the US public to get the country's free speech protections overturned, so you're just going to have to deal with people saying things you dislike.
- dbsmith83 6y agoDo you not know what is happening in Hong Kong right now? You don't let the government decide what is "hate speech" and what is not.
- ergocoder 6y agoOn the flip side, you don't let Facebook decide that as well. As a society, there doesn't seem to be a solution.
- quotemstr 6y agoFreedom of speech is the solution.
- dbsmith83 6y agoIf FB wants to decide that what I say is not allowed on their platform and consequently ban me, that's fine by me. It's their platform, so their rules. Very different from a government banning speech, and hauling people away to be tortured like in China's case.
- ergocoder 6y agoYou make it sound like, since it's a private business, they can impose any rule they want. I don't think I agree with that.
- orangecat 6y agoBut we all agree that hate speech should be punished by laws though, and it currently is punishable. We don't, and it isn't, at least not in the US.
- throwaway4220 6y agoIt is sometimes punishable by federal law https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/how-federal-law-draws-a-line-between-free-speech-and-hate-crimes https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/how-federal-law-draws-a-...