ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 29 days agoIs it possible to have a "free speech" platform that simultaneously stops "hate speech"?message-squaremessage-square97fedilinkarrow-up1117arrow-down19
arrow-up1108arrow-down1message-squareIs it possible to have a "free speech" platform that simultaneously stops "hate speech"?ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 29 days agomessage-square97fedilink
minus-squarewhaleross@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down5·29 days agoOh no, policing. Like in everything else in a functioning society because people do things they are not supposed to. You’re free to drive wherever but you’re but free to ram your car into pedestrians. Oh my god the oppression.
minus-squareamanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·28 days agoYes but one is words, and the other has a guaranteed tangible impact? I don’t think thats a viable analogy
minus-squarewhaleross@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-228 days agoSomebody calling up your family and workplace and tell them you’ve been stealing for your drug habit are also just words.
minus-squareamanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·24 days agoThey’d get laughed off the line unless they tried to fabricate evidence against me, which at that point is a different crime.
Oh no, policing. Like in everything else in a functioning society because people do things they are not supposed to. You’re free to drive wherever but you’re but free to ram your car into pedestrians. Oh my god the oppression.
Yes but one is words, and the other has a guaranteed tangible impact? I don’t think thats a viable analogy
Somebody calling up your family and workplace and tell them you’ve been stealing for your drug habit are also just words.
They’d get laughed off the line unless they tried to fabricate evidence against me, which at that point is a different crime.