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Re:Private censorship is not the best way to fight hate or d... by readams on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @02:00PM (#28697487)
US law defines the line as speech that incites imminent lawless action. The speech must not only be encouraging such action, it must be imminent and likely. This is in practice a pretty good line.

If you think that private companies should censor much more heavily, then you obviously don't really believe in free speech. There's no obvious reason why it's more acceptable because all the dominant communication platforms censor speech vs the government doing it.

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Re:Private censorship is not the best way to fight hate or d... by dzader on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @03:59PM (#28699111)
you're forced to follow laws, you aren't forced to post memes on twitter.
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Re:Private censorship is not the best way to fight hate or d... by dude187 on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @07:58PM (#28701572)
When all your friends talk on platforms like Twitter and Facebook, then you cannot act like censorship through these platforms does not negatively effect the content of discourse available to the public. Especially in times of a forced lockdown, such as we were recently subjected to with the "quarantine".
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