• Wilco@lemm.ee
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    3 hours ago

    I have a strange opinion, but here goes: The Right to Free Speech (Im in the US here), should protect you from censorship. Doing what Reddit is doing should be considered a Rights violation and we should be able to sue them into the ground.

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      2 hours ago

      Terrible idea. Any site that bans for hate speech would also be a rights violation. If a platform doesn’t share your values, leave it.

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        59 minutes ago

        Yes, sadly, freedom of speech includes freedom of hate speech. The platform would have to rely on its users downvoting or ridiculing the offender rather than outright bans.

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          28 minutes ago

          See Twitter to see what “free speech absolutism” gets you. The hateful stuff will quickly overrun and take over the platform, chasing decent people away.