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Re:Facebook's new policy bans blackface and some Jewish ster... by kstenerud on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @05:48AM (#24130147)
This is unfortunately going to end badly. We're still in a fairly decent position on the diminishing returns curve for banning offensive content, but it's already a far cry from what people were talking about censoring even a year ago.

The logical extreme for this sort of thing would be the censoring of anything that isn't as bland and boring as a history textbook (for exactly the same reasons). I expect there will be stronger and stronger pushback before it goes this far into the ridiculous, but this will be the general direction that every offence-taking group pushes things in.

The left can't take a joke. The right can't take criticism of orthodoxy.

Re:Facebook's new policy bans blackface and some Jewish ster... by dcow on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @06:06AM (#24130260)
2+2=5
Re:Facebook's new policy bans blackface and some Jewish ster... by raxxorrax on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @06:37AM (#24130485)
There is a saying in my country that you sometimes need to let 5 be even. But it mainly a suggestion for a laissez faire approach.