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Re:Alex Stamos: Asking tech companies to police hate speech ... by jachee on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @02:23PM (#18286011)
There is no "grey" area for hate. It's absolutely binary. If you hate something or someone, there's no half-way. Hate is the force behind the Holocaust, hate is the force behind the Iraq Wars. Hate has torn the Middle-east to shreds for millennia. Hate was the Khmer Rouge's genocide. Hate was Apartheid.

Giving hate any leeway is to give it 100% of its power. It must MUST MUST be fought as an absolute.

Re:Alex Stamos: Asking tech companies to police hate speech ... by orthecreedence on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @04:32PM (#18287191)
Viewing the world in absolute terms IS one of the main causes of hate, in my opinion. The idea that a group of people can be convinced to view something as absolute makes them malleable to do things they wouldn't otherwise do.

For instance, you are absolutely against hate. Now all someone has to do is change your definition of hate. Even in a subtle way. Now you are absolutely against something else you may not have been before. And this absolute disgust for something can morph and become something completely different than it was before. And you will never question it because you have absolutely made up your mind and there is no other way.

The world is not black and white, in any way. There are only shades of gray. There is no such thing as absolute good, and there is no such thing as absolute bad. Please examine this in yourself before you become a tool for someone else's agenda.

Re:Alex Stamos: Asking tech companies to police hate speech ... by mden on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @03:52PM (#18286818)
So would you say you hate 'hate'? If you don't hate 'hate' and it's "absolutely binary" then doesn't it follow you love hate? If you do in fact hate 'hate' then it must also mean you hate yourself.

Absolutism like this often leads to logical traps. Even when it doesn't it's still unhealthy. Besides, the only way to exterminate an idea is to exterminate the people that might embrace that idea which in itself sounds pretty wrong.

Re:Alex Stamos: Asking tech companies to police hate speech ... by daenz on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @02:41PM (#18286176)
>Giving hate any leeway is to give it 100% of its power. It must MUST MUST be fought as an absolute.

Apparently this means yelling at white people for your downvotes on the internet.

Re:Alex Stamos: Asking tech companies to police hate speech ... by trolleyhacker on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @05:43PM (#18287787)
Do you hate Nazis?
Re:Alex Stamos: Asking tech companies to police hate speech ... by franciscrick1 on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @06:08PM (#18287944)
I really don't care what you have to say, and I don't like you, but I don't particularly hate you. Happy?