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Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by bjt2n3904 on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @02:09PM (#19504031)
Absolutely not! I'd be interested in knowing how you came to the conclusion that was my argument.

Rather, it is important for society to support free speech, not just the government. While society is under no obligation to, it's unhealthy to censor speech.

It's even worse when society self censors free speech, and then pretends to still advocate it.

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Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by thieving_magpie on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @02:47PM (#19504504)
I was taking the point to an extreme. You're saying a society should support free speech so Facebook should let the white nationalist content stay on their site (by their own good will, not forced by government). Is that not accurate?

Deciding what I allow on my site is an exercise of my free speech. Why is hosting white nationalist free speech more important than my free speech to not host racist content?

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