There is merit to maintaining an open environment. Censorship makes the censored content seem lucratively dangerous; it looks like the powers that be are afraid of what some people are saying. I think it is best to let bad arguments fail on their own merit. The problem is that most people are unable to recognize a bad argument.
Facebook to ban white nationalist content
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I think fascism is resurgent (minimally) because democracy is failing some people. Not because China is doing anything.
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#23There was a good Intelligence Squared debate about this recently “Constitutional Free Speech Principles Can Save Social Media Companies from Themselves”: https://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/debates/constitutional...
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#24Why not ban all racism, all hate, everything? Doing just one is PR only.
Read the article.
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#25Why not ban all racism, all hate, everything? Doing just one is PR only.
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#26Good to see the Valley is starting to get off its "we are just a platform, all information should be free and neutral no matter how bad, so we're not responsible" extremism of the past few years and understand that some forms of speech are harmful should not ever be encouraged and accelerated on any platform or technology, ever. To the people that say "Where does it end?" – that's pretty easy. Let's start with curbin…
> To the people that say "Where does it end?" – that's pretty easy. Let's start with curbing speech that encourages harming others. This may come as a surprise to you, but this response will not be comforting to those with genuine concerns about civil liberties. Avoiding the question of where to draw the final line with the question of where to draw the first one just implies that you intend to draw more lines in the…
This isn't the first line though–Facebook already bans things like ISIS propaganda. This is in a similar bucket.
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#27There was a time when the FB newsfeed was chronological, and just showed what your fiends posted as they post them.
It seems like less blame for the world's problems could be put on FB if it was just treated as a dumb bulletin board. Why not go back to Facebook being a "dumb pipe?"
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#28The bigger question is, will they also ban content that would be construed as hate speech if you simply replaced the words “white people” with “[!white] people”?
This is not the bigger question.
Sure it is, because it sounds like Facebook isn’t committed to getting rid of all hate speech, just the kind that isn’t socially acceptable. Same with Twitter.
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#29Separatism too? As a Spaniard I couldn't be happier about that.
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#30As an anti-racist conservative, the most fun I have on the internet these days is arguing racists out of their beliefs on the armpits of the internet. I relish my downvotes there. I would be bummed about these beliefs being banned everywhere because I wouldn't get to exercise my Internet debate skills to make a positive impact on the world without worrying about trampling on somebody's right to an echo chamber.