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[–] Holyginz@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Freedom of speech should never be given as an excuse for allowing hate speech, racism, bigotry, fascism or anything else on that vein a platform.

[–] Famko@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

The paradox of tolerance is not taught to as many people as it should be.

[–] rist097@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The problem comes when you let the government decide what is "hate speech, racism, bigotry, fascism". It gives government too much power to control the opposition by censorship.

[–] Holyginz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What, as apposed to corporations and companies like Twitter, Facebook and reddit? Lol

[–] rist097@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Including corporations, that's why we are all on lemmy, is it not? 😉

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What exactly do you propose to do about hate speech, racism, bigotry and fascism being spread on social media as propaganda, ignore it and hope no one sees it and gets radicalized? We're already seeing people become terrorists after being radicalized by Internet media. and you would have us just hope we're not in the line of fire when it happens again, I guess?

[–] rist097@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

First of all, the USA is not the center of the world, the problems you guys have with mass shooting is not caused by the "hate speech".

And again banning hate speech is just masking the deeper institutional/educational problems you have, not solving them.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I literally showed you an example where someone was radicalized by hate speech on the internet. Here is another example. I can keep providing them if you would like.

And it's not just an American problem.

Again, should we just ignore that and hope we're not in the line of fire?

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

And again banning hate speech is just masking the deeper institutional/educational problems you have, not solving them.

This is a false dichotomy.