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hate speech is a legally meaningless category under us law. where are you drawing the basis for this distinction of 'protected speech' from? also importantly, i
by odessacubbage 6y ago
hate speech is a legally meaningless category under us law. where are you drawing the basis for this distinction of 'protected speech' from?
also importantly, it seems like racism is only viewed as needing moderation within one context. twitter is currently full of indians and chinese users posting what would ostensibly be considered virulently racist comments about eachother's ethnic groups and yet this is not subject to moderation. no one pulled facebook's ads when they enabled multiple ethnic cleansings etc. it seems like the only racism people in power care about is arguably the least consequential: facebook dads and edgy teens using too many gamer words.
there will never truly be a moderation solution that can actually handle racism in either language or substance. ban one slur and 1000 more will be invented while non offending speech and the spectrum of permissible thought are continually eroded by this absurd and ill-conceived 'scorched earth approach towards making people not say the n-word'