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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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