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Hate speech is not illegal in Sweden, but ok. They have, at least when I used to be a regular, deleted tons and tons of threads because they had an political i

Hate speech is not illegal in Sweden, but ok. They have, at least when I used to be a regular, deleted tons and tons of threads because they had an political incorrect opinion stated. They banned a lot of users for no real reason and revamped the rules many times in order to silence peoples opinions that were widespread on the sub. Now afaik there is only people like themselves (and presumably yourself) left, I wonder why? Reddit itself took a stance a while ago for specific political opinions and removed a lot of subs that I was subscribed to. Many others were famously quarantines like /r/theredpill and others. If you simply upvote the incorrect thing you can be banned. This is basically punishing thoughts. You can't claim freedom of speech if you silence a very large group of people from speaking.

zibzab 5y ago
> Hate speech is not illegal in Sweden, but ok. Not ok: https://lagen.nu/1962:700#K16P8S2 https://lagen.nu/1962:700#K16P8S2 > because they had an political incorrect opinion After complaining some years ago, the mod team was rearranged and now contains people from a wide political spectrum. > specific political opinions and removed a lot of subs that I was subscribed to Maybe Reddit is not your private echo chamber and resits your extreme ideas? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communities#TheRedPill https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communi...
- ecmascript 5y ago
  I hate that law and consider it to be a violation of free speech but I do not consider it to be hate speech. You can hate disabled people how much you want for example. > After complaining some years ago, the mod team was rearranged and now contains people from a wide political spectrum. Yeah.. that is just a load of bs. > Maybe Reddit is not your private echo chamber and resits your extreme ideas? This is just the thing. As soon as you have deviating opinions, now you're instantly extreme. Do you know that I consider the Reddit rules and ideas extreme? What people like you doesn't seem to understand is the wind is only blowing in your direction for now, it will not stay like that forever. It's sad that people have forgotten the importance of free speech and that censorship has been popularized. Sometimes it really feels like people read 1984 and brave new world as instruction manuals.

zibzab 5y ago

> Hate speech is not illegal in Sweden, but ok. Not ok: https://lagen.nu/1962:700#K16P8S2 https://lagen.nu/1962:700#K16P8S2 > because they had an political incorrect opinion After complaining some years ago, the mod team was rearranged and now contains people from a wide political spectrum. > specific political opinions and removed a lot of subs that I was subscribed to Maybe Reddit is not your private echo chamber and resits your extreme ideas? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communities#TheRedPill https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communi...

ecmascript 5y ago
I hate that law and consider it to be a violation of free speech but I do not consider it to be hate speech. You can hate disabled people how much you want for example. > After complaining some years ago, the mod team was rearranged and now contains people from a wide political spectrum. Yeah.. that is just a load of bs. > Maybe Reddit is not your private echo chamber and resits your extreme ideas? This is just the thing. As soon as you have deviating opinions, now you're instantly extreme. Do you know that I consider the Reddit rules and ideas extreme? What people like you doesn't seem to understand is the wind is only blowing in your direction for now, it will not stay like that forever. It's sad that people have forgotten the importance of free speech and that censorship has been popularized. Sometimes it really feels like people read 1984 and brave new world as instruction manuals.