A16Z is re-registering as a financial advisor, renouncing its status as a VC

Re:A16Z is re-registering as a financial advisor, renouncing... by slg on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @07:49PM (#19568205)

Cross reference this list[1] with this one[2]. I just don't see any evidence for a claims like "Western democracies with hate speech laws are less democratic".

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech

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Re:A16Z is re-registering as a financial advisor, renouncing... by turkeysandwich on Thursday April 04, 2019 @10:44AM (#19572893)

The only thing the democracy index gets right are the broad strokes. But then again, so could a high schooler with wikipedia and a free afternoon.

It's not implemented well enough to detect the fine differences between western countries.

Hate speech laws reduce the range of discourse. They suppress dissent. That's inherently undemocratic.

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Re:A16Z is re-registering as a financial advisor, renouncing... by late2part on Friday April 05, 2019 @11:41PM (#19589057)

I think the reason so many people feel that it's important to allow dissenting and objectionable speech is that the perception of 'harmful' speech is mostly subjective.

Relegating that permissiveness to a particular entity allows that subjectivity to be enforced in perverse ways.

Many people feel it is better to tolerate the objectionable and hurtful speech than to allow a 3rd party to use subjective judgment to censor.

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