Re:Facebook and Google Helped Anti-Refugee Campaign in Swing...
by coffee9 on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @12:52PM
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It confuses the idea of child porn with literal child porn, similar to hate speech/depictions of violence with literal violence, neo-Nazis with literal 1940 Nazis, historical statues with racists. Free speech makes on sense in this regressive mindset.
Re:Facebook and Google Helped Anti-Refugee Campaign in Swing...
by drewbuschhorn on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @02:23PM
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A simpler way to say your accusation is that 'it confuses the sign with the signified', and I didn't.
Re:Facebook and Google Helped Anti-Refugee Campaign in Swing...
by drewbuschhorn on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @02:22PM
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I feel like this thread got a little lost.
There's a difference between something being legal and being societally encouraged. The original article is about companies working actively to help groups. I think 'age of consent' people should be allowed to shout it from the street corner of their choice, but I don't believe we as a society have to then applaud or patronize people who make a business out of selling them bullhorns.
"Some people say" Google refusing to run your ads or host your site (which I guess we've now slipped to from 'sending employees to help grow your business') is censorship, but that's only the case if you're a protected class.
And nope, born and raised in the good old midwest, and in fact had write essays on the ten commandments controversy in grade school.
Why not? I know it sounds horrible, but unless the ads explicitly serve child porn, a platform for legalizing child porn is merely a political position and covered under the first amendment.
You can go to a city hall, and start making your case for legalizing child porn and they can't do anything to prevent you from doing that (legally).
I know you're using this example as a rhetoric, but in US simulated child porn (like anime) is already legal and protected under the first amendment.
> Embeds to 'make the US a purely Christian nation' groups, if they call themselves 'allow "traditional" values in the court room' groups?
Either you don't live in America (or recently moved here) or you live in a deep bubble. I have seen ads about making America a Christian nation, similarly ads about putting traditional values in the courtrooms (check out the whole ten commandments in courtroom controversy).