• bedrooms
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    1 year ago

    That’s just common misconception. Free speech is there to protect people from the government, not business. If my anti-racism voice gets suppressed on Threads (assuming I ever make an account there) I’d just move to another platform.

    And really, there’s no good reason for a well-intended internet community to allow racism expand.

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      31 year ago

      Racism will expand if you censor it.

      How many racists have a big audience? And I mean openly, explicitly racist. Not the dog-whistle racism from Fox news.

      People have been censored by automated systems for just criticizing racists. Yes, that means that all the people who call them out for being shitty get censored too.

      • darq
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        31 year ago

        Racism will expand if you censor it.

        Literally the exact opposite is true. Deplatforming bigots limits their audience, and limit’s their ability to propagandise.