Re:Ask HN: Why are Twitter and Facebook so poor at moderatin...
by dictum on Saturday November 12, 2016 @07:42AM
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> Who defines what groups are a "hate group?"
From what I've observed, every publication has the Southern Poverty Law Center as the arbiter — and then you end up with things like this http://www.theexmuslim.com/2016/10/27/southern_poverty_law_c...
Is Black Lives Matter a "hate group?" What about Blue Lives Matter? What about an anti-BML group? Who decides? And once they're a hate group, according to you everything they publish is automatically considered "hate speech" and therefore banned. Seems overly broad.
Honestly yelling "it is just obvious" is very naive and unworkable. People have tried for years to come up with black and white definitions of these things and they've all failed. It often boils down to "when I see it, I know it" but that varies per individual.