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Re:Richard Stallman Collapses At Barcelona Conference by padolsey on Thursday May 10, 2012 @03:55PM (#3955636)
Silencing dialogue, no matter how repulsive it may seem to you, is never the answer, especially in a "free" and "open" society.
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Re:Richard Stallman Collapses At Barcelona Conference by Lockyy on Thursday May 10, 2012 @04:52PM (#3955952)
Do you oppose automated hell-banning here?

It has lead to people being hell-banned for inoffensive things, the worst I've seen is someone hell-banned because their double post got such a large amount of down-votes.

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Re:Richard Stallman Collapses At Barcelona Conference by jscn on Thursday May 10, 2012 @09:02PM (#3957012)
HN is owned privately and everyone's ability to use it is at pg's discretion. pg has no duty, implied or otherwise, to provide a platform on which the principles of free speech hold. This is not true of society at large. You seem to be conflating the two.
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Re:Richard Stallman Collapses At Barcelona Conference by alayne on Thursday May 10, 2012 @10:36PM (#3957278)
Nearly every website is owned privately. That doesn't mean we still shouldn't seek free speech as a moral goal. What if Google censored your Gmail messages? You're using it at their discretion, right?
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