It's very common on the left to demand suppression of "hate speech".

Of course, that commonly ends up mostly meaning "speech I hate".

You’ve made a very vague statement there.

There are extremes in every political movement, no doubt. I don’t deny that there are people on the left out there protesting against “hate speech”. There are also people on the right that are out and out racist. I think choosing whether to vote Democrat or Republican based on either of those extremes is a poor choice.

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> I would have identified as a Democrat on pretty much every issue, but this authoritarian suppression

So we’re not talking about vague “leftists” here, we’re specifically talking about the Democratic Party. You’re going to have a rough time arguing they are campaigning on authoritarianism.

So in this specific case, for one example, we're talking about Biden's team requesting the removal of revenge porn. Do you think it's acceptable to make that request? Should Twitter be obligated to leave revenge porn up? Is this an example of the 'suppression of "hate speech"' you're referring to with scare quotes? Because it doesn't seem like one to me.

There are several countries in Western Europe where there are such laws, and it never means that.

In theory yes. But Twitter isn't a mix of liberal and conservative. Its straight left.

Twitter is (or was) filled with young, affluent, highly educated (at least college graduate) city dwellers. By any metric that's a demographics that leans heavily left. How is that a surprise that Twitter was straight left?

Because tech workers aren’t always straight left. HN is a fantastic example — it leans much more right than a lot of other internet forums. Partly just because entrepreneurship means you have to get along with capitalism at some level.

Saying this as someone who is progressive. It’s definitely a relatively progressive field, but maybe not as much as you’d think!