[ZeroGravitas]

Did twitter suggest that it wanted to host terrorist material due to an uncompromising commitment to free speech? I assume if you gave them a magic wand to wave that would remove all terrorist material then twitter would wave it. Could Gab say the same?

[cosmiccartel]

We're not talking about terrorist material. We're talking about speech. Holding and voicing controversial ideas is not terrorism.

[WorldMaker]

Words have the power to terrorize people. They build fear. You have to really split hairs to not call that terrorism.

[cosmiccartel]

Equating speech with terrorism builds fear in me. According to your logic, your own comment is terrorism. Unless you really want to split hairs.

[WorldMaker]

Not all speech is equal in building fear/stress/intimidation. Bomb/death/dismemberment threats are very different from the content of my comment.

While most of us feel like we can shrug off threats and "words can't hurt me", that isn't actually true [1], it is possible for a campaign of terrorism (in terms of "intimidation [through fear] for a political aim") to be enacted solely in words.

Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences, and words have consequences in the way the brain processes them, even if we want to keep arguing whether or not it is valid for speech to also warrant consequences such as a private company (domain registrar) refusing to do business with another private company.

[1] It is something of a comfortable lie that we tell school children to avoid what actual science/psychology tells us is stressful/harmful to humans.

[dogma1138]

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[thatonechad]

You realize that the offending post was making a remark about a fat person, not terrorism.

[detaro]

Has a specific post been named? source?

[thatonechad]

http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2017/09/05/gab-now-under-th...

According to this. Scroll down and you can see the post says INTERNET FATTIES something or other. Unless im missing the context it seems pretty ridiculous.

[WorldMaker]

Ars Technica journalists say the problem posts in question were anti-Semitic.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/twitter-rival-ga...

[WorldMaker]

I was unaware that the thread I was replying to was debating specifics rather than handwaving at generalities like freedom of speech.