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Re:Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are ... by anigbrowl on Thursday August 09, 2018 @05:04PM (#17728495)
And who decides what is and isn't a silly idea?

This is a bad faith argument. I say so because the purported mechanism for such decision-making is actually spelled out upthread, and because this rhetorical question is then followed by a glaring fallacy of composition that seeks to draw a general conclusion from a single and highly over-simplified example.

Re:Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are ... by partiallypro on Thursday August 09, 2018 @06:25PM (#17729087)
So, the anti-GMO movement, far and away has more blood on its hands than even Alex Jone's dumb theories (see golden rice.) Should we police that speech? I believe anti-GMO is a silly idea, and a deadly one. Far more deadly that Jones claiming Sandy Hook wasn't real, far more deadly than a 9/11 conspiracy theory. Yet, we allow it, in fact in many cases we encourage it on the corporate/company level (see Chipotle.)

There are tons of "mom blog" type pages on Facebook that push this crap, it's a much much bigger industry than Jones. Where is the outrage there? Is it ok to ban their speech from a corporate platform? It does way more societal damage. Gwyneth Paltrow pushes things with her company "Goop" that can cause serious health problems. Should we ban her from Facebook? I just wonder where you draw the line, because if we're talking raw statistics on society damage, InfoWars or virtually any form of "hate speech" isn't even in the top 10.

Re:Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are ... by will_dev_4_food on Thursday August 09, 2018 @05:42PM (#17728784)
It’s not a silly example but rather a common one. Many years ago it was only the fat that were attractive because they were the financially secure. Many believed that royalty were th only form of legitimate government, and colonial activity among “savages” was doing them all a favor.

Science, academics, and even personal experience vary with time. Not all variance that follows is truthful...some is exaggerated purposefully or accidentally, though most is considered good information at the time.

Re:Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are ... by anigbrowl on Thursday August 09, 2018 @06:52PM (#17729247)
I didn't say it was silly. Please try to differentiate between the quotation that I'm responding to and what I said in response.