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Re:Cognitive ability is related to supporting freedom of spe... by LudwigNagasena on Saturday September 10, 2022 @04:16PM (#32794261)
> Their speech is dangerous. It's not a given that they will be defeated. Establishing some standards on platforms to deny them a mass audience while still keeping the wide open internet free for anyone to use seems virtuous.

I don’t get how it is any different from the anticommunist fervor you are decrying. Your stand is basically to let various crazy people to have crazy ideas unless there become too many of them and they would be deemed a threat at which point they should be censored and discriminated.

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Re:Cognitive ability is related to supporting freedom of spe... by michaelmrose on Sunday September 11, 2022 @02:36AM (#32797342)
The anticommunist fervor saw people's lives and careers ruined. Making the white supremacists get together on gab with their fellow gabbers because they got kicked off Facebook allows them to exercise free speech within the boundaries of the law while limiting the spread of their poison.
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