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It's a privately owned platform. You never have an assurance of free speech on any of those, and on Reddit, the rot set in years ago.
There is a big jump from "we are a private company and we have internal rules" to "we are a private company and our internal rules that directly go against human rights"
Based on what I read in the posted article, everyone is making a big leap here. Of course I expect you all to be right in the end based on Reddit being a shitshow, but we don’t know what the content they are referring to is exactly.
For all we know, they are only referring to stuff like human trafficking or child porn. The statement is vague.
I have a strange opinion, but here goes: The Right to Free Speech (Im in the US here), should protect you from censorship. Doing what Reddit is doing should be considered a Rights violation and we should be able to sue them into the ground.
Well, you are certainly entitled to that opinion even though it's wrong, and I do think banning you for it is also wrong.
There's a big difference between having ideas and taking actions. Ideas cannot be allowed to become illegal. Even disgusting ones.
The correct response to unconscionable ideas is social, not institutional.
Terrible idea. Any site that bans for hate speech would also be a rights violation. If a platform doesn't share your values, leave it.
Yes, sadly, freedom of speech includes freedom of hate speech. The platform would have to rely on its users downvoting or ridiculing the offender rather than outright bans.
See Twitter to see what "free speech absolutism" gets you. The hateful stuff will quickly overrun and take over the platform, chasing decent people away.
Twitter isn't even remotely pro-free-speech; much like Reddit, they claim to be in order to defend the worst people on the platform, while routinely deleting or banning people for speech they disagree with
That's correct. But it starts by allowing hate speech. Can you give an example of a single platform that allows it that didn't become a toxic shithole?