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Like PewDiePie, Azealia Banks, Babylon Bee, and Carpe Donktum? By the way, in the USA there is no legal support for the term hate speech. It is covered under t
by tomcam 5y ago
Like PewDiePie, Azealia Banks, Babylon Bee, and Carpe Donktum?
By the way, in the USA there is no legal support for the term hate speech. It is covered under the umbrella of the first amendment.
- bigfudge 5y agoNo, pewdiepie was banned for five minutes for saying he was going to join isis. He’s still on the site but doesn’t tweet. https://mobile.twitter.com/pewdiepie https://mobile.twitter.com/pewdiepie Hate speech doesn’t need legal protection as a term to be against the rules of the site. I can’t remember if that’s the actual term twitter uses, but it’s the spirit of their rules. We could have a wider debate about whether our public square should be privately owned (I don’t think it should) but that wasn’t your point. Edit: more details and reason why his tweets are (self)deleted https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-37244296 https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-37244296
- tomcam 5y agoI brought up the first amendment because Elon has pretty much said that that is how they will decide on what continent gets published. I never came close to saying they don’t have the right to restrict speech anyway they wish
- tomcam 5y ago* content not continent. Apparently I am suffering from literary incontinence