this guy is 100% committed to give nazis a platform, right?
I think you mean — speech you don’t like. Where do you draw the line?
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sanzky@beehaw.org 5 months ago
this guy is 100% committed to give nazis a platform, right?
marathon@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Well, literal Nazis would be a good start.
marathon@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Well, literal Nazis would be a good start.
The problem is that most of the blocking is simply because people don’t like the speech. This is a huge concern for any liberal democracy. Free speech is a right, and that means speech that one doesn’t necessarily like!
Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org 5 months ago
No free speech is not a right. Freedom of speech without prosecution from the government is a right.
No one is required to platform your stupid fucking viewpoint.
The 1st amendment ONLY allows you to say what you like and not have the government prosecute you for it. However, there are still limits to speech that cannot be prosecuted.
For example, you can’t yell fire in a crowded theater. You can’t cause a mass panic that results in injuries or death.
A private company has exactly zero obligation to platform your idiotic ramblings.
Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Yes, he is. People like this are divorced from reality.
He’s a billionaire or whatever. The speech doesn’t effect him in any way. He still has more resources than he could hope to burn through in multiple lifetimes. Speech literally cannot harm him.
He doesn’t understand that to all the doors, some speech can and does hurt us.