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Over 100 far-right militias are coordinating on Facebook
(arstechnica.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
The far left are coordinating on Lemmy. At the end of the day as long as they aren't committing a crime you can't and shouldn't do anything about it.
Racism is still free speech which sucks but the alternative is high censorship and fear
Facebook is not the government though?
And why is it always "we have to respect other people calling for the erasure of the rights of minorities"? Do you have any idea how frustrating and tiresome that is, as a minority?
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Neutrality is the side of the aggressor.
This is incorrect, and only serves those who target marginalized groups.
I wanna make it very clear that the conclusion that restriction of hate speech is a slippery slope for freedom of speech is not a given or universally held position
You can absolutely introduce laws prohibiting hate speech without introducing high censorship or fear. Many countries have laws prohibiting hate speech, including most European countries and a majority of, what Wikipedia calls, developed democracies.
Even countries that don't have limits for hate inducing speech towards marginalized groups, with reference to the importance of freedom of speech, rarely have complete freedom of speech.
As an example, the US limits to freedom of speech include "fraud, child pornography, speech integral to illegal conduct, speech that incites imminent lawless action, and regulation of commercial speech such as advertising."
The claim that intolerance to intolerance is dangerous, only serves the spread of intolerance.
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Racism is free speech, unless it's deemed antisemitic, then you're in trouble!
There is no law that says you can't been antisemitic. There are a bunch of antisemitic people here on Lemmy.