Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts

Re:Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts by whybroke on Thursday November 17, 2016 @12:35AM (#12974657)

Evil ideas need to be analyzed and refuted absolutely. Their adherents should write them up in depth and place them on the web so that they can be discussed widely and in depth and, if erroneous, be refuted.

It's hard to see how 140 character snipes, provocations and occasional calls to hostility fall into that category. But maybe.

Is it censorship to remove random stickers from telephone poles? To erase graffiti?

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Re:Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts by kbart on Thursday November 17, 2016 @02:52AM (#12975322)

Ask 100 people what is evil and I'm sure you will get similar number of different answers. Is abortion evil? Is religion evil? Is being proud of your history and heritage evil? Is being gay evil? Not everything in life is black and white. In fact, most of things are grey, so it's important to allow both (or even more) sides to express their views, even if somebody else might find it evil. If it goes down to threatening with violence, outright racist slurs etc. we have laws to deal with it.

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