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Re:Facebook’s experimental hate-speech policy seems to be wo... by censorshipsci on Friday November 20, 2020 @04:16PM (#25165062)
I don’t think that’s quite true. Isn’t Facebook protected from liability in a way that something in the physical world like, say, a theme park isn’t?
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Re:Facebook’s experimental hate-speech policy seems to be wo... by mulmen on Friday November 20, 2020 @04:50PM (#25165486)
No, they are not. Facebook and theme parks have the same First Amendment rights.

Here are a couple of good explanations.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...

https://www.popehat.com/2016/06/11/hello-youve-been-referred...

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Re:Facebook’s experimental hate-speech policy seems to be wo... by pfisch on Friday November 20, 2020 @04:20PM (#25165110)
If customers go inside a theme park and start spouting off about crisis actors and that talk incites someone to engage in violence outside of the theme park, the theme park is not liable for that.
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