[Consultant32452]

If you operate on public infrastructure, like being granted public right of ways to lay fiber, I think you lose the right to discriminate. This feels good because Nazis are assholes but it sets a very dangerous precedent. This is why the ACLU has a long history of defending Nazis and their ilk. Because one day it will be you on the other side. We should all discriminate against Nazis by denouncing them, ignoring them, etc. Public infrastructure should not.

[astrange]

By this argument Gmail shouldn’t be allowed to run spam filters.

[mike_hearn]

I actually used to work on Gmail anti-spam and wrote this reply to the same argument yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15011913

[anc84]

Apples and oranges.

[howlgram]

You can talk about how things "should" be, about "precedents", etc, but the true guideline to measure these things is what the vast majority agrees to, because that's what public approval is all about. So all you can really do is try to convince the majority about what is 'right' and what is 'wrong'.

[bloobloobloo]

> So all you can really do is try to convince the majority about what is 'right' and what is 'wrong'.

Unless the people who own all the infrastructure disagree with you, and refuse to accept your money.

[Larrikin]

What happened last time the Nazis were ignored?

[hueving]

The last 70 years.

[Ygg2]

Look on the bright side. The last time they were banned - 1939.

[Consultant32452]

You mean when the redshirts rioted and killed 24 people which pushed the public towards the brownshirts and ultra-nationalism? Was that when we're imagining the Nazis were ignored?

[anarazel]

There's this event called the second world war.

[novembermike]

He's referring to the fact that a major catalyst for the Nazis gaining power was German communists engaging in what was practically open warfare with them.

[honestoHeminway]

They sold themselves as law and order - in contrast to the civil war there militant wing fought with the communists in the street.

Thats the real danger here. A hysteric left and some right outliers creating the basis for continuously improving anti-terror laws. Oh.. too late.