Re:Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Re...
by _Tev on Thursday December 27, 2018 @07:33AM
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> Do we philosophically want to live in a world where people can be incited to great amounts of violence just because we want to protect FoS on private platforms?
Do we want to live in a world, where everyone will be scared to say anything socially unacceptable (because it _might_ lead to violence!) because of the total deplatforming that might happen as a conseqence?
There is a lot of blurring around the definition of "inciting violence", and I am scared of the slippery slope too.
Do we want to live in a world, where everyone will be scared to say anything socially unacceptable (because it _might_ lead to violence!) because of the total deplatforming that might happen as a conseqence?
There is a lot of blurring around the definition of "inciting violence", and I am scared of the slippery slope too.