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Re:Google announces workshops to tackle the spread of hate s... by vivekd on Monday April 24, 2017 @01:13PM (#14186048)
It's almost childish the way certain people seem to think the words "free speech" constitute an argument in themselves. Videos of child rape "free speech", watching people be tortured for fun "free speech." Showing minors porn "free speech. ISIS recruitment videos aimed at teenagers "free speech."

Merely attaching the words free speech to something doesn't automatically make it okay.

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Re:Google announces workshops to tackle the spread of hate s... by coldtea on Monday April 24, 2017 @01:30PM (#14186195)
It's almost childish how people use the same tired arguments about fringe activities that maybe 0.001% of the population enjoys (like minor porn) and which are violations of the law in their own right to do anyway, as examples of why we should censor speech and videos.

There's a law to take down child porn already -- we're not discussing that, and we don't need an extra law with vague and unrelated powers to censor stuff, to tackle that.

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Re:Google announces workshops to tackle the spread of hate s... by vivekd on Monday April 24, 2017 @01:37PM (#14186261)
>It's almost childish how people use the same tired arguments about fringe activities

Fringe activities exactly what we are talking about censoring. Google is not talking about censoring eveyrday speech, they're talking about targeting and getting rid of the fringe activities like hate speech.

Nobody is advocating preventing ordinary discourse like criticizing Trump or being pro Trump etc. They are talking about getting rid of speech like neo nazi speech, terrorist recruitment speech, child endangerment/exploitation speech.

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