For me I would hold the social media companies more to account when it comes to hate speech and harassment online and force social media companies to do more to stop online harassment and hate speech.
For me I would hold the social media companies more to account when it comes to hate speech and harassment online and force social media companies to do more to stop online harassment and hate speech.
Wait, I though censoring hate speech was itself cancel culture?
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Not everything you disagree with is hate speech. I think eg Germany has pretty strict limitations on specifically hate speech, but there are still plenty of people voicing opposing views.
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That only really works if the government is preventing you from saying it, and it’s not something like slander or causing panic. If your lemmy instance banned talking about Pickles, it’s not a free speech issue. It’s a private instance who can have their own rules.
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You better be ready to own the consequences of that stance, which I assume you’ve been privileged not to need to. You can look up any number of mass shooters or terrorists who only got there due to online radicalization.
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I’m going to stop you at we don’t have a problem with terrorists. Shit take, I don’t care to continue.
Who is "we"? Where I live we don't have such things. At least not in a noteworthy quantity. Not everyone is us-american :)
An opinion is one thing. Speech that has the intention of hurting others and/or inciting violence against others is another thing entirely.
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You see on one extreme you have people stifling legitimate opinion, and then on the other you have people advocating lynchings. There isn't a simple answer, but the answer certainly isn't to smugly sit in the middle and pretend you have it all sussed just because you have no skin in the game. Ultimately all you are doing is advertising that you are ok with lynchings or whatever other forms of bigotted violence because it doesn't effect you.
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"muh freeze peach" okay peckerwood, if that's how we're playing I pray you get replaced lmfao
How eloquently formed arguments. I applaud you good sir.