"Its just a fictional slippery slope made up to protect hate speech"
Ah, and there is the ugly, authoritarian, Stalinist argument right there.
"We only ban, denounce, destroy those who are GUILTY of Hate Crimes, so how could you have any worry about that?"
People are banned all day long on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Stripe, comments sections etc. for any and all sorts of made up reasons that have nothing to do with hate speech. And FYI you can say things that are essentially hate speech, but in a political context may not be, so it's fine i.e. "White People Are a Disease" is a common thing on Twitter. No problems there apparently.
And speaking as a former German resident, they have some real Nazis there, none of this kind of 'made up suff' like in the US.
This is a problem that needs to be addressed.
'Freedom of Expression' is the #1 Amendment to the US Constitution and the #1 thing in the relatively new Canadian constitution (#11 in EU) for a very good reason: it took thousands of years for 'every day people' to be able to speak their minds without being shot.
We can't leave this issue up to corporate CEO's, mostly trying to read the Twitter tea leaves.
I agree completely. I think democratizing speech so that it cannot be controlled by any source of power, government or financial, does have real importance. But its not the most important right, compared to life or wellbeing: instead, its important because it supports what's actually important.
But I have a message of good news: it turns out speech can be lightly restricted while leading to less authoritarianism or cronyism, as can be seen from numerous examples, by simply restricting speech in a way that is kept controlled by the specific people who are subject to it.
Ah, and there is the ugly, authoritarian, Stalinist argument right there.
"We only ban, denounce, destroy those who are GUILTY of Hate Crimes, so how could you have any worry about that?"
People are banned all day long on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Stripe, comments sections etc. for any and all sorts of made up reasons that have nothing to do with hate speech. And FYI you can say things that are essentially hate speech, but in a political context may not be, so it's fine i.e. "White People Are a Disease" is a common thing on Twitter. No problems there apparently.
And speaking as a former German resident, they have some real Nazis there, none of this kind of 'made up suff' like in the US.
This is a problem that needs to be addressed.
'Freedom of Expression' is the #1 Amendment to the US Constitution and the #1 thing in the relatively new Canadian constitution (#11 in EU) for a very good reason: it took thousands of years for 'every day people' to be able to speak their minds without being shot.
We can't leave this issue up to corporate CEO's, mostly trying to read the Twitter tea leaves.