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Re:Facebook’s experimental hate-speech policy seems to be wo... by Imnimo on Friday November 20, 2020 @04:36PM (#25165300)
That's sort of the point, though, isn't it? In the case of a government, there's a broad prohibition against censorship regardless of content. So whether or not I approve of an idea doesn't enter into the equation when faced with government censorship.

But if I don't feel there's a similar prohibition against corporations or individuals censoring things on their platform/property/whatever, then I have to think about whether or not I agree with the proposed censorship for other reasons. That's not a retreat to the motte - that's just an acknowledgement of the fact that anti-government-censorship arguments don't necessarily apply to private entities.

Once we're dealing with an entity for which I don't have a blanket objection to censorship, it makes perfect sense that I would accept some content bans but not others, based on my opinion of that content.

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Re:Facebook’s experimental hate-speech policy seems to be wo... by AnimalMuppet on Friday November 20, 2020 @04:56PM (#25165532)
But there's still an argument against censorship, even given your starting point. They may at some point decide to ban content, and that may be a ban that you don't accept - that you think is wrong. If you're not going to like it when it's done to positions you agree with, then you have a reasonable basis for opposing it when it's done to positions that you disagree with.
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Re:Facebook’s experimental hate-speech policy seems to be wo... by triceratops on Friday November 20, 2020 @05:14PM (#25165717)
You can disagree with a specific instance of moderation while defending someone's right to perform moderation in general. How is that different from disagreeing with a specific thing someone said, but defending their right to say it?
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Re:Facebook’s experimental hate-speech policy seems to be wo... by Imnimo on Friday November 20, 2020 @05:00PM (#25165566)
Sure, that's not an unreasonable position to take. But I also don't think it's unreasonable for someone to object to some instances of censorship and not others. It's certainly not fallacious to take such a position.
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