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Re:Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service ... by listless on Friday April 01, 2022 @04:13PM (#30882800)
> "You shouldn't be able to tweet racist messages"

This seems right on the surface, but the problem is that it's really hard to determine what a racist message is. For instance, if black people want to discuss their frustration with white people in honest language, it might sound pretty racist. But I'm not sure any of us would want to curtail that. FB had this exact problem not too long ago..

https://revealnews.org/article/how-activists-of-color-lose-b...

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Re:Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service ... by rubyist5eva on Friday April 01, 2022 @06:30PM (#30883977)
> if black people want to discuss their frustration with white people in honest language, it might sound pretty racist

Because it is.

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Re:Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service ... by listless on Saturday April 02, 2022 @08:15AM (#30887640)
Agreed. And this is exactly why we shouldn’t ban it.
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