Re:Another neo-Nazi site, Stormfront, is shut down
by mozumder on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @12:06PM
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Censorship is fine. Use it as a tool to maintain social order.
Don't be the guy that read 1984 and thinks all censorship is bad, and that the world is going to collapse because someone banned a neo-nazi forum. You don't have enough information to make that far-reaching slippery-slope conclusion, mostly because of the millions of other factors that you didn't consider in your model.
We need to encourage companies that engage in this behavior that censor violent people.
Re:Another neo-Nazi site, Stormfront, is shut down
by mcbruiser3 on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @12:33PM
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who gets to decide what's censored? you?
Technically correct may matter legally, but we should make it clear that it is not acceptable for companies like Network Solutions or Facebook to engage in this behavior. If the law does not protect speech in these instances, we should push back using other means.
It's simply not reasonable to expect non-technical, non-lawyers to understand these nuances well enough to get their message out without risking censorship. Today, that's OK because we're talking about a very bad message, but tomorrow it may not be quite so OK.