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Re:In Germany, online hate speech has real world consequences by anigbrowl on Sunday January 14, 2018 @12:56PM (#16145315)
a law that has a private company decide what are in effect criminal cases against citizens

The private company is a publisher which is being held responsible for what it chooses to publish. Individual citizens have a right to hold and express their views, but not an automatic right to publication. If their views are so odious as to invite criminal sanction, it's entirely reasonable for them to incur extra costs/difficulty of publication.

Now this is where someone usually pipes up with 'but my freedoms!' and that's all very well, but if the freedom they wish to exercise involves proposing limits on the freedom of others (perhaps even by ending their lives) then that person is proposing a zero-sum view of freedom for others and cannot complain about having a zero-sum calculus imposed upon their own political expression.

Popper's paradox of tolerance may be explicable in terms of the boundary between positive and zero-sum games. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Re:In Germany, online hate speech has real world consequences by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Sunday January 14, 2018 @03:53PM (#16146353)
Which is relevant to the question of whether a private company should decide legal cases against citizens how exactly?

> Individual citizens have a right to hold and express their views, but not an automatic right to publication.

Well, yes, that is what that means. They have a right to not be hindered by the state in publishing their opinion (unless hate speech, essentially).

Re:In Germany, online hate speech has real world consequences by anigbrowl on Sunday January 14, 2018 @06:23PM (#16147180)
Declining to publish isn't the same as deciding a legal case. Nobody has a right to be published by another party.
Re:In Germany, online hate speech has real world consequences by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Sunday January 14, 2018 @06:54PM (#16147339)
Congrats on consistently missing the point.
Re:In Germany, online hate speech has real world consequences by dang on Thursday January 18, 2018 @04:47AM (#16175887)
If you continue to post uncivil comments to Hacker News, we will ban you.