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Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by mcphage on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @01:34PM (#19503462)
> Avoiding the question of where to draw the final line with the question of where to draw the first one just implies that you intend to draw more lines in the future.

No, it just implies that we don't need to have the perfect final answer now. Maybe we'll draw more lines, maybe we'll find out we don't need to, maybe we'll decide that this line was drawn too far and pull it back. We don't need to pretend that we have all the answers yet—we don't even need to pretend we have all the questions yet.

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Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by Kalium on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @01:42PM (#19503588)
You are very wise and thoroughly correct!

Perhaps people might consider offering such elegant points as yours, instead of making the claim that the current line is correct and that's all that matters.

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Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by ssully on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @02:58PM (#19504650)
I would argue that the people who are concerned about "what future lines will be drawn" when the first line being drawn is banning white supremacists are the ones who should be making more elegant points.
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