Re:CloudFlare CEO says his Daily Stormer takedown was “arbit...
by patrickg_zill on Thursday August 17, 2017 @04:34AM
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In USA, anything less than full throated adherence to the party line of a San Francisco Marxist professor, is labeled "Nazi" by someone, somewhere.
Re:CloudFlare CEO says his Daily Stormer takedown was “arbit...
by celticninja on Thursday August 17, 2017 @05:33AM
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I think if you are marching with a swastika flag then you get the Nazi moniker regardless of what your exact political stance is.
Re:CloudFlare CEO says his Daily Stormer takedown was “arbit...
by tscs37 on Thursday August 17, 2017 @06:43AM
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What about when somebody is making a historical movie.
Re:CloudFlare CEO says his Daily Stormer takedown was “arbit...
by lostlogin on Thursday August 17, 2017 @07:00AM
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Depends if they are a method actor or not.
Re:CloudFlare CEO says his Daily Stormer takedown was “arbit...
by andriesm on Thursday August 17, 2017 @05:35AM
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No forget all this labeling of people as Nazis.
Re:CloudFlare CEO says his Daily Stormer takedown was “arbit...
by matthewmacleod on Thursday August 17, 2017 @06:08AM
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People who march under the swastika banner, adorn themselves with Nazi iconography, chant 'blood and soil' and identify themselves as Nazi can legitimately be labelled as Nazi.
The term is often over-used; not in this case.
Re:CloudFlare CEO says his Daily Stormer takedown was “arbit...
by aplummer on Thursday August 17, 2017 @07:40AM
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I'm not surprised about the downvotes, I would point out they had nazi flags and yelled a known nazi slogan as a group.
There are many shades of grey between right wing and Nazi, though, and if we decide that Nazi speech is to be banned then we also need to start drawing a very clear line as to what is ‘Nazi enough to ban’ and what is just ‘approaching Nazi’.
I’m live and work in a country where the public denial of crimes against humanity is punished by fines and prison. I don’t deny crimes like the Holocaust or Srebrenica or Rwanda and I despise the people who do, but I still feel uncomfortable with laws that criminalise that sort of speech. This situation is not exactly the same - Daily Stormer can probably find someone else to support their site - but there’s something to the slippery slope argument.