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Appreciate your comments. "We allow all legal free speech*" has the benefit of being very succinct. But when someone says, "hey one of your customers is encoura
by eli 2y ago
Appreciate your comments. "We allow all legal free speech*" has the benefit of being very succinct. But when someone says, "hey one of your customers is encouraging violence and hostility against my family" and you keep it up anyway because it's legal, that is 100% as much a political choice as taking it down. "Well sorry, we're free speech absolutists" doesn't absolve you of the decision to host that site.
(* Though of course that's not really the policy anyway. You probably mean more like, "speech that, in our opinion, is likely to be ruled illegal" right? You're not waiting for someone to bring charges and a court to issue a final ruling. Making that determination isn't so easy. Whose laws are we following on a global internet anyway? Content moderation has no easy answers)