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Re:The origin of Silicon Valley's dysfunctional attitude tow... by apcragg on Monday December 04, 2017 @12:29AM (#15841659)
It isn't the government that is doing that. It is society as a group that has decided that "no slurs" is the norm. If you want to use slurs, use them in a subgroup that for whatever reasons deem them acceptable. Don't use them around society as a whole as it has decided that there are social consequences for using them. Again, if you don't like it either campaign to change it or exclude yourself from society but don't conflate the social contract with government authoritarianism.
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Re:The origin of Silicon Valley's dysfunctional attitude tow... by rtpg on Monday December 04, 2017 @01:54AM (#15842006)
Right, separating the social contract from the gov't was what I was trying to point out.

"in my house" can be replaced with "on my website" or "in my restaurant" for most purposes. There's some stuff about monopolies and access guarantees to utilities.... but for most purposes the discussion is far from those cases I believe.

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Re:The origin of Silicon Valley's dysfunctional attitude tow... by ekianjo on Monday December 04, 2017 @12:33AM (#15841682)
> It is society as a group that has decided that "no slurs" is the norm.

Society is not a uniform group with a single way of thinking.

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Re:The origin of Silicon Valley's dysfunctional attitude tow... by h0l0cube on Monday December 04, 2017 @12:56AM (#15841778)
apcragg is probably referring to social mores and the social compact. Ultimately there are conventions, explicit or otherwise, that compel our social interactions.
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Re:The origin of Silicon Valley's dysfunctional attitude tow... by ekianjo on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @01:46AM (#15850220)
> Ultimately there are conventions, explicit or otherwise, that compel our social interactions.

I agree, but as far as I know in the US the spirit behind such interactions is pretty much described in the constitution, and the first amendment makes it very clear that freedom of opinion/expression is paramount, no matter what.

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Re:The origin of Silicon Valley's dysfunctional attitude tow... by alphabettsy on Monday December 04, 2017 @12:54AM (#15841764)
I think you should review the definition of society.
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