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if you feel that way, then reddit is by far the larger community when it comes to bigots, racists and assholes than voat.co because they are the home to /r/GasT
by lingben 11y ago
if you feel that way, then reddit is by far the larger community when it comes to bigots, racists and assholes than voat.co because they are the home to /r/GasTheKikes and /r/coontown and many many other reprehensible subreddits
even so, you are still wrong because free speech means exactly that, speech that you or I may not agree with.
if it were limited to speech that only some or the majority aligned with then it wouldn't be called 'free speech' would it?
- zajd 11y agoFor the record, I would cheer those subreddits getting banned as well. Don't mistake my comments for a defense of reddit.
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- s73v3r 11y agoFree speech is freedom from government censorship. A private company is not obligated to host your filth.
- lingben 11y agoAnd yet they do, check out /r/GasTheKikes or /r/coontown or many other examples
- chazu 11y agoFree speech also refers to a closely-held cultural value in the US, that is to say the respect for private citizens to hold and espouse beliefs which others find distasteful or offensive. Saying "free speech only refers to the government censoring you" (at least in the context of America) is like saying that American society and culture consist _solely_ of the official bureaucratic proceedings of its constituent governmental bodies. In other words, its intellectually dishonest.
- s73v3r 11y agoNo, it isn't. Further, why is the company obligated to associate themselves with your filth? Do they not have the right to not be associated with it?