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Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by ratling on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @04:02PM (#19505369)
> It ends, as it always does (and must) with massive hypocrisy on the part of the arbitrary censor, since "harm" is so poorly defined that it ends up being replaced with "whatever seems fashionable today".

You are defending literal nazis. Their idea of speech is Christchurch. Deplatforming that is absolutely the correct move.

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Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by DoofusOfDeath on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @04:24PM (#19505626)
> You are defending literal nazis. Their idea of speech is Christchurch.

This whole conversation centers on the relationship between speech and action. Equating the two will confuse the discussion.

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Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by ratling on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @04:26PM (#19505652)
What does that even mean? Like last I checked a whole big chunk of the world may have gone to war for a few years over the subject of, "Nazis are bad."

Kicking them off Facebook isn't anywhere close to that large of a response.

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