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Re:Kiwi Farms response to CloudFlare by salawat on Sunday September 04, 2022 @10:53AM (#32713717)
>This is the usual ignorance of social contagion that we see from free speech purists who can't fathom that spoken ideas can spread and motivate catastrophic outcomes.

Has said every hand wringing censor demanding a thumb on the scale forever. This is the exact logic that led to "The Fool" being the only one capable of criticizing a monarch. Action may require censure, speech never should.

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Re:Kiwi Farms response to CloudFlare by hackerlight on Sunday September 04, 2022 @11:18AM (#32713966)
Yet you probably support that defamation and incitement should be illegal. Curious that the exact current set of laws that outlaws some speech and doesn't outlaw other speech is perfectly optimal despite the world having radically changed since those laws were written.
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