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by lurker69 3224 days ago
Joke policing is absolutely wrong and one of best indicators at judging how authoritarian people are. Everyone who supports this or pretends that jokes are serious hate speech with intention to suppress someones right for free speech is worst kind of human.
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kbenson 3224 days ago
It's not joke policing to assume some values of an individual based on their speech. It may make people incorrect, but as long as they are making personal decisions, comedians alienating audiences is nothing new. As long as the comedian isn't forced (actually forced, not just incentivized by poor reactions) to stop telling the joke, no censorhip is taking place, and the problem is self correcting.
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lurker69 3223 days ago
Many consider whole Daily Stormer webpage as satire. Majority of their readers read it for its creative but controversial humor.

Twitter sat ladies that cry bullied this big IT companies to deny service for Daily Stormer caused webpage to not be accessible. People who enjoyed this style of humor cant enjoy it anymore. This is very definition of censorship.

Cat ladies not visiting web page would be enough to not hurt their feelings. Them going out of their way to prevent others to enjoy this is very authoritarian and one of reasons why tragedies happen.

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kbenson 3223 days ago
> Twitter sat ladies that cry bullied this big IT companies to deny service for Daily Stormer caused webpage to not be accessible.

It's no different than a club cancelling a comedy booking because they don't want that type of comedy at their club, because they don't think their patrons will support it.

> People who enjoyed this style of humor cant enjoy it anymore. This is very definition of censorship.

No, it's not. They can go somewhere else. They can find a different provider, or publish a pamphlet or go to a street corner. You know what it means as a comedian when you can't book a club? Not enough people are interested in what you have to say to make it worthwhile to give you a pulpit, or at least not enough people to offset the distaste you cause in others. That's not censorship, that's social pressure.

Censorship is about ability and rights. Nobody is restricting the ability or rights of the daily stormer. It's still legal to post what they want, and they have avenues to do so (with enough money, they could become their own host). Freedom of speech is just as much about letting the daily stormer say what they want as it is letting cloudfare and others decide they don't want to support it.

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