Reddit Bans Nazi Groups and Others in Crackdown on Violent Content

Re:Reddit Bans Nazi Groups and Others in Crackdown on Violen... by panarky on Thursday October 26, 2017 @09:42PM (#15564942)

> these are humans, not monsters

Humans can become monsters.

Nazism and fascism metastasize in open societies. If they have a forum, if they're allowed to congregate online or in real life, they self-radicalize.

I'm extremely pro-free-speech, often to a fault -- but that doesn't apply to actual Nazis or other people who promote hate and violence.

This is really toxic shit and can be impossible to control once it gets going.

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Re:Reddit Bans Nazi Groups and Others in Crackdown on Violen... by baud147258 on Friday November 03, 2017 @09:23AM (#15618979)

> I'm extremely pro-free-speech, often to a fault -- but that doesn't apply to actual Nazis or other people who promote hate and violence.

So you're an hypocrite.

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Re:Reddit Bans Nazi Groups and Others in Crackdown on Violen... by DanBC on Friday November 03, 2017 @09:25AM (#15618985)

Nazis seek to silence others through violence or threats of violence.

If you believe in freedom.of speech you should seek to protect these minority voices that are being silenced by violence, you shouldn't be protecting people making death threats.

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Re:Reddit Bans Nazi Groups and Others in Crackdown on Violen... by baud147258 on Friday November 03, 2017 @09:45AM (#15619139)

They are not the only ones.

But the problem is saying that Nazis, without violence and threats of violence can silenced. And if you silenced people even before the threats, how can you say you're for the freedom of speech?

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