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Re:GoDaddy has shut down Richard Spencer’s white supremacist... by anigbrowl on Monday May 07, 2018 @06:59PM (#17017164)
people can still find what they're doing detestable

Please explain to me the vital public interest at stake in protecting explicit calls for the abandonment of due process and participation in atrocities by law enforcement, and incitements to rape, murder, and other crimes with emphasis on particular ethnic groups as detailed in the mentioned letter (https://lawyerscommittee.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Clar...).

I find it odd that the idea of terminating an automated publication service is considered a greater moral ill than the idea of committing the egregious human rights violations which would have a far greater impact on the liberty of the target populations. Perhaps we could establish a calculus of social ills? I'm really anxious to know how many rapes, enslavements, and murders it takes to outweigh the injustice of someone suffering an impediment to publication of content inciting such acts.

Re:GoDaddy has shut down Richard Spencer’s white supremacist... by ocdtrekkie on Monday May 07, 2018 @07:36PM (#17017386)
I don't think you can weigh "incitement" nearly as severely as an act curtailing rights to speak their mind. You are trying to equate the horrific acts of rape, enslavement, and murder, with the act of writing text on a website about such, and I do not believe those two things are equal.

There is only so far I believe you can place blame on someone. While it is obvious that you can blame someone who commits a murder for that murder, there's an increasingly tenuous attempt to blame someone who told them they should commit a murder that I do not buy into. It seems to remove the agency of the murderer to try and cast the blame onto someone else.

Re:GoDaddy has shut down Richard Spencer’s white supremacist... by anigbrowl on Monday May 07, 2018 @08:41PM (#17017798)
You are trying to equate the horrific acts of rape, enslavement, and murder, with the act of writing text on a website about such

Writing about a behavior and encouraging people to engage in said behavior are distinctly different sorts of speech acts. I don't know what you find 'increasingly tenuous' about the very detailed and specific exhortations identified here. Writing such is of course not the same as committing it, but I don't agree with your position tha it's free of any culpability. Again, it seems like you're more troubled by people exhorting such behaviors being thrown off the platform than by the impact upon those targeted by such statements.

Re:GoDaddy has shut down Richard Spencer’s white supremacist... by ocdtrekkie on Monday May 07, 2018 @09:49PM (#17018192)
I definitely am more troubled by actions against people than words against people.
Re:GoDaddy has shut down Richard Spencer’s white supremacist... by anigbrowl on Monday May 07, 2018 @10:35PM (#17018384)
I'd point out that the altright.com website violated GoDaddy's ToS first, rather than their website being pulled for something one of them said or associated themselves with in another context. This is a peculiar hill to die on.
Re:GoDaddy has shut down Richard Spencer’s white supremacist... by ocdtrekkie on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @12:33AM (#17018840)
Again, I'm not saying GoDaddy didn't have a legal right to do it.

I'd be happy to die on the same hill as the guy who wrote "First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist."

Re:GoDaddy has shut down Richard Spencer’s white supremacist... by anigbrowl on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @06:42PM (#17025977)
Who's closer to the 'they' in this example - is it GoDaddy declining to provide hosting services to website operators, or the people using that website to propose massacre, re-education by rape, and murder of people because they Jewish?