Comment by kelnos
9 years ago
> At what point is it acceptable to ban unpopular political speech, provided that speech is not a direct incitement to riot/violence?
I'm not saying it _is_ acceptable to do that. But we are actually talking about political speech that incites people to violence, and I'm ok with banning that.
But -- we're not even talking about _that_ here. We're not talking about a government restricting speech, and we're not even talking about an essential, monopolistic company removing a party's only avenue to speech[1]. We're talking about a non-essential internet corporation (for which there are many alternatives!) deciding they don't want to help a hate group spread their message.
[1] If their single-option ISP cut them off, we'd probably be having a very different discussion.
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