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I understand and broadly sympathise with the sort of ~absolute freedom of speech outlined in the US constitution, but I am completely baffled by this recent push seen here on Hacke…

OK, most charitably, some of the people protesting unwittingly supported and took part in a fascist coup. Sucks for them I suppose, it's of course an easy mistake to make. People h…

I don't agree with this at all and I am tired of seeing "sensible" people here explain how it's important to reach out to fascists and make them feel loved. You're only advocating …

If you can't ban a fascist for instigating violence and a coup attempt then your ToS are worthless and all moderation on every website must be made illegal.

The simple truth is that these knuckle-draggers plotting for Mike Pence to be executed by firing squad would have at every point in the past never been able to reach a "public foru…

But that person is right. Most of the arguments against private companies banning companies/individuals violating their ToS boil down to something along the lines of "this is a sli…

I don't even have a pitchfork, I was just genuinely surprised by the prospect of someone having no opinion on Donald Trump. That has literally nothing to do with technology whatsoe…

I don't think there's any remotely plausible prospect of America becoming a Marxist state. Your paranoia is noted, however, and it is typical of Americans, and probably in part why…

> I think people from at least some countries of the world would disagree with you about communism being dead Possibly, but to me in the West I don't feel like there's any remotely…

Well China isn't really communist any more, it sort of began to abandon that with Deng Xiaoping, but regardless, my point is there's truly minimal risk of communists coming to powe…

It is specifically baffling to have no opinion on Donald Trump, yes, and that is precisely orthogonal to one's opinions on the internet, Twitter, "tribes", technology, or anything …

Sure, but the threat of fascism in any given Western nation that I know of is far greater than the threat of communism, which is rather dead.

Ummm maybe I'm mistaken but censorship was widespread throughout Europe during the enlightenment and yet the enlightenment still happened. The paranoid American style where anythin…

It's not the responsibility of normal people to indulge the crazy satanic paedophile conspiracy theories of total lunatics so that said lunatics won't behave like total animals. Th…

The trespassing and sacking of the capitol is precisely a sign of backsliding on traditionally liberal ideas from the enlightenment, much more so than Twitter banning the number on…

>I am loving people who don't understand that they are literally supporting billionaires while claiming to be anti-corporate resistance. The billionaire in question is Trump, isn't…

>I hold no opinion on Trump Utterly baffling and genuinely inconceivable. My imagination is running wild trying to imagine what sort of person you might be, assuming you are being …

>I described specifically what the difference is. The difference between them is that one is more effective than the other. Do you at all recognize how different methods of censors…

No, the government banning something is meaningful because they have the monopoly on violence. Reddit admins banning a sub and reddit mods banning a user is the exact same thing, i…

Do you honestly believe that, for example, the Economist is just as partial as RT, Sputnik, Telesur, or Xinhua? If not, then what point are you actually making? Your comment is pur…

There's no chance of Biden going easy on China, that would be political suicide. What might change is that Biden will lean more on multilateralism to build a coalition of democraci…

You need help.

> I count such statements as personality characteristics The problem is if you're going to move the goalposts so that lie means something else then what is there to say? The idea t…

>I will grant that maybe Trump (1) exaggerates and (2) says things to gauge reactions You mean lies? They're called lies. This is the crux of the issue and why Google's action are …

Ironically the Electoral College was designed in part to protect against populist lunatics like Trump, but it's he who has benefited from it.