Comment by bnjms
9 years ago
Much like free speech due process concerns citizens and their government rather than people and any public organization.
9 years ago
Much like free speech due process concerns citizens and their government rather than people and any public organization.
No. The 1st amendment is specific to the government, but free speech is a much broader normative concept. It is about cordoning off the market place of ideas from reprisals in meatspace. A canonical defense is John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty" (available free online).
It might be a canonical concept, but it's not encoded in law.
Indeed. The law does not completely protect free speech; the first amendment prevents the federal government from infringing it, but it's up to us to defend it when it's threatened by other private citizens or organizations.
He said so himself in May that every website deserves due process before taking it offline.
“Whenever you have a private organization which is making what are essentially law enforcement decisions, that is a risk to due process. And I think due process is important,” Prince said in the interview.
"Yup, they're Nazis".
What more due process do you require?
There was a post on twitter earlier that said "Take your first name and your last name, that's your Nazi-fighting name".
I asked "Actual Nazi's like National Socialists with a Eugenics campaign, or people we just don't like".
Did not go well.
We should be careful to a) not call everything Nazi and thereby dilute the effect b) call people are actual Nazi's whatever the fuck you want, they can all go die quietly for all I care.
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> What more due process do you require?
That sounds like something a Nazi would say.
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Even when one explicitly calls it out as something they believe in?
Do you honestly believe this is a good argument?