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Re:Cognitive ability is related to supporting freedom of spe... by stjohnswarts on Saturday September 10, 2022 @02:29PM (#32793249)
Those laws were made to protect specific groups and their basic human rights to operate in a society. You have you no right to force me to host your opinion however. Especially when that are dozens (hundreds?) of hosts that will pretty much allow anything if they will allow Gab, Stormfront, 4chan, etc.
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Re:Cognitive ability is related to supporting freedom of spe... by throwawayacc2 on Saturday September 10, 2022 @03:25PM (#32793826)
You cannot have it both ways.

We agreed as a society business are not allowed to discriminate. If businesses cannot discriminate, then your business should indeed be forced to host whatever content I put there, no matter how repulsive you may find it, as long as it is within the boundaries of the law.

Close the door to this and the door to discrimination will open.

For now, it will be in your favour. At some point, societal values will change again. And you will find yourself on the “wrong side of history”.

That is why we made anti discrimination laws and that is why we should stick to this.

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