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Re:Zuckerberg defends not suspending ex-Trump aide Bannon fr... by imgabe on Thursday November 12, 2020 @09:23PM (#25078113)
In your estimation, if Facebook doesn't censor this speech, then that makes them a certain "kind" of platform? It means that Facebook is pro-beheading?

So how come if the US government doesn't censor it, it doesn't make the US a pro-beheading country? Empirically, compared to other countries the US manages to be pretty anti-beheading despite tolerating speech about beheading.

Do you think that any failure to censor speech constitutes an endorsement of that speech? Is it not possible to allow speech you disagree with? Does Facebook the company have to endorse every opinion someone posts on it?

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Re:Zuckerberg defends not suspending ex-Trump aide Bannon fr... by awb on Thursday November 12, 2020 @10:02PM (#25078325)
I didn't attempt to answer any of those questions, but instead simply tried to illustrate that Bannon went beyond metaphor in his words.

I don't like censorship and I don't like public speech that encourages violence. Unfortunately, those two stances are at odds sometimes and there are warnings from history on both sides.

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