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Comment by chlodwig

5 years ago

and should have restricting not only violence glorifying posts, but also the ones with racial or sexual discrimination and all the others.

Do you think tweets that make derogatory references to Karen's or "tech-bros" should be deleted?

Should a Tweet that says, "There will be no peace as long as there is no justice for the centuries of white supremacy and centuries white people oppressing all other peoples." be banned? What about a Tweet saying, "There will be no peace as long as their is no justice of centuries of Jewish puppet-mastery and Jews oppressing all other peoples"?

I'm OK with restricting racist and sexist posts in the public square -- as long as the censorship is applied equally to all ethnicities and sexes. And if the censorship was applied equally, a lot of Tweets from "anti-racist" activists would need to be censored.

And there is the crux of this argument, at least as it pertains to HackerNews. Which is the palpable fear that white supremacy focused rhetoric will be marginalized and de-platformed.

I'm not saying every single opinion should be redacted (opinions should not be redacted - they are simply statements of who you are and what are your values), but (false) fact statements and clear/open calls for racial and sexual discrimination, etc.