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Comment by wpietri

2 years ago

> There is nothing wrong or morally objectionable about this.

Depends on the opinion. "We must kill all the [insert ethnic group]" is a legal-to-hold opinion. But I'd say it's both wrong and morally objectionable to provide a platform for transmitting that opinion. Which is why Twitter banned people like that.

And even for those without a moral sense, I should point out that it was also bad for business. Twitter had a business choice to make: they could keep all the blatant racists or they could keep the non-white audience they targeted plus the white people that don't like open racism. Even if you're a-ok with open bigotry, it's pretty obvious that the right financial choice is to boot most of the open bigots, so that the platform feels safe enough to everybody else.

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josteink  2 years ago

> "We must kill all the [insert ethnic group]"

To be fair, that has always been allowed to say on Twitter as long as the target is either white, men or both.

The only news is now you’re (equally) allowed to spread that kind of toxic hate towards other groups as well.

Is that a good thing? Possibly not, but at least it is objectively more fair than it used to be.