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Re:Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect User... by stale2002 on Friday November 17, 2017 @01:21PM (#15724528)
My point is that he has not recognized the dangers of his viewpoint.

It is dangerous to believe "oh, I don't care what an oppressive government does in order to stop Nazis" because a whole lot of people are being called Nazis these days.

The same exact thing happened during the red scare. It was not JUST the revolutionary communists who were literally trying to overthrow the government that got oppressed. A whole lot of other people who definitely didn't deserve it, got oppressed to.

Human rights exist for everyone for a reason.

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Re:Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect User... by s73ver_ on Friday November 17, 2017 @01:38PM (#15724718)
No, I don't believe so. They're not people that "the police just said were Nazis". They're people who self-identify as white nationalists and Nazis.
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Re:Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect User... by anon1385 on Saturday November 18, 2017 @12:13PM (#15729789)
Yes. It's worth pointing out that in general it's really really easy to identify these groups because they are entirely open about their aims and ideals. That's the point of them.
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