Re:GoDaddy has shut down Richard Spencer’s white supremacist...
by anigbrowl on Monday May 07, 2018 @06:36PM
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GoDaddy took the site down because of posts explicitly calling for violence against migrants - to the extent of "a massacre or two" - which violated its ToS.
It's kind of hard to take complaints about free speech being infringed seriously when the complainants (qua the website operators, not the commenters here on HN) are proposing to limit not only the speech of others, but their freedom of movement and indeed their freedom to go on living. While this particular episode is a commercial rather than a constitutional question, I'm inclined to agree with Justice Robert H Jackson's well-known dictum that 'the Constitution is not a suicide pact.'
Re:GoDaddy has shut down Richard Spencer’s white supremacist...
by modbait on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @11:46AM
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You seem to be saying that the principle of free speech should not include being able to say that some speech of others should be limited. I suspect GoDaddy would disagree.
It's kind of hard to take complaints about free speech being infringed seriously when the complainants (qua the website operators, not the commenters here on HN) are proposing to limit not only the speech of others, but their freedom of movement and indeed their freedom to go on living. While this particular episode is a commercial rather than a constitutional question, I'm inclined to agree with Justice Robert H Jackson's well-known dictum that 'the Constitution is not a suicide pact.'