Re:The Daily Stormer, Online Speech, and Internet Registrars
by mrkstu on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @11:47AM
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So I take you to mean you supported Hollywood's blacklisting of suspected Communists? And would support outlawing allowing Noam Chomsky from speaking publicly in the United States? After all, Communism is responsible for more dead people than Nazism...
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Re:The Daily Stormer, Online Speech, and Internet Registrars
by Delmania on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @01:04PM
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That's whataboutism at play.
Re:The Daily Stormer, Online Speech, and Internet Registrars
by mrkstu on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @01:09PM
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No, its directly on the nose. Either your argument that its different because "Nazism resulted in the murder of 30 million people" is valid or not. Your predicate is what is at question and therefore not whataboutism.
Re:The Daily Stormer, Online Speech, and Internet Registrars
by Delmania on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @01:37PM
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K, fine, we'll play the whataboutism game. Chomsky is not a communist, he's more a socialist, and he has, in fact, spoken out against the Soviet Union and Soviet communism. Since he's not advocating for racial and ethnic cleansing and oppression, he's not quite the same as the neo-Nazis.
Re:The Daily Stormer, Online Speech, and Internet Registrars
by mrkstu on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @01:59PM
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Notice you ignore the blacklist, which is the more relevant point.
As far as Chomsky goes, this is actually a great illustration of the problem. I think he's a Communist, you disagree. Well guess what- a lot of the 'protestors' in Charlottesville were white Nationalists with Nazi overtones, some were hardcore Nazis, some were dabbling alt-righters. So who decides which or any of them gets to protest/speak? You, me, the government, Google?
Its not just a slippery slope, its an avalanche of stupidity to try to do viewpoint censorship.