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They make the argument hate speech is not a form of protected speech, but it is.
by SubjectToChange 6y ago
They make the argument hate speech is not a form of protected speech, but it is.
- floatingatoll 6y agoI apologize for my poorly constructed argument. I should have spoken more clearly and I was in a rush. I'll probably screw this explanation up too, but the apology stands regardless. Hate speech isn't Section 230 protected speech, in my opinion. Copying from above, with modified italics placement: > any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected This is a list of forms of speech that providers, under Section 230, may safely disregard constitutional protections for. Racist speech and other forms of hate speech are, at minimum, 'otherwise objectionable'; and therefore they are not forms of speech protected by Section 230.