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Re:Alex Stamos: Asking tech companies to police hate speech ... by criddell on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @02:14PM (#18285919)
> Ideas are the only counter to other ideas and how we communicate those idea is via speech.

A lot of holders of bad ideas have no interest in rational debate. For those people, sunlight is an energy source, not an antiseptic.

When ISIS posts a video of a beheading, there isn't a lot of reasonable discussion going on in the comment section.

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Re:Alex Stamos: Asking tech companies to police hate speech ... by mrkstu on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @02:56PM (#18286331)
Those aren't just ideas- those are vicious actions. I don't think giving access to those we are actively at physical odds with is within bounds of debating ideas.

I doubt the founding fathers were inviting Quislings to their debating societies during the revolutionary war.

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Re:Alex Stamos: Asking tech companies to police hate speech ... by criddell on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @03:16PM (#18286499)
Well, if you don't have a problem with ostracizing groups like ISIS or white supremacists, then maybe we don't disagree that much.
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Re:Alex Stamos: Asking tech companies to police hate speech ... by mrkstu on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @03:29PM (#18286615)
Are we at war with white supremacists? ANTFIA? Venezuela?

Equating ISIS with supremacists is equating a nuclear bomb with an M80 firecracker.

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Re:Alex Stamos: Asking tech companies to police hate speech ... by criddell on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @03:44PM (#18286752)
Well that brings up an interesting question: is the US at war with ISIS? I know Congress authorized action against the Taliban and Al Qaeda and maybe that's all that's needed to go after other groups.
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