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Re:Facebook and Twitter pledge to remove hate speech within ... by VeejayRampay on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @11:12AM (#11806970)
Removing hate speech means you have to define it in the first place. As soon as that line is drawn in the sand, it gains the ability to move. When it moves, it means anyone can eventually gain the power to move it. When that happens, it means that good and bad people can move it. When bad people eventually move it, you're in a pinch. That's why you don't draw in the sand.
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Re:Facebook and Twitter pledge to remove hate speech within ... by rck404 on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @01:05PM (#11807885)
What that means you need to define good and bad people in the first place. On a serious note I completely agree with you as right now hate speech is about race, gender & body shaming which is the current line in sand. Soon nationality, sub-races, religion, region & sub-regions, individuals, comic characters and pretty soon actual corporations will be add to the things you can't hate on.
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Re:Facebook and Twitter pledge to remove hate speech within ... by talmand on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @05:24PM (#11810381)
Sorry to be the one to point this out, but we're already there.
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Re:Facebook and Twitter pledge to remove hate speech within ... by Barrin92 on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @06:07PM (#11810679)
sorry, every statute is a matter of consensus and moves around quite a lot, especially over the course of history. This is how every legal system operates, this isn't a serious argument against anything
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Re:Facebook and Twitter pledge to remove hate speech within ... by StanislavPetrov on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @08:04PM (#11811245)
Of course it is, that's the whole point. Its why the 1st Amendment guarantees all speech (despite the Unconstitutional restrictions imposed over the years by our broken legal system). You either have free speech or you don't - there is no middle ground.
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