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by qubax 2775 days ago
> Literally the first sentence on this page describe the censored content as "sensational, vulgar or politically harmful content."

I know. Hate speech. Also, isn't that the same list that social media like facebook, reddit, etc use to censor now because leftists demanded it?

> Your argument that this is the same as the desire for blocking legitimate hate speech in the US is simply political inflammation

Wait. So who determines what is hate speech? You?

> It's not at all the same. Please stop.

It is the same. So please stop. Free speech doesn't exist to protect speech you agree with. It exists to protect speech you disagree with. It exists to protect hate speech.

Everything is hate speech if you actually bother to think about it. Is LGBT speech hate speech to muslims? What about speech against flat earthers? If I say that the earth is round, is that hate speech?

"Hate speech" is just an excuse used by tyrannical puritans to justify censorship speech they don't like.

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We've banned this account for continuing to do ideological flamewar on HN and ignoring repeated requests to stop.

Please don't create accounts to break the site guidelines with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Its even worse than that, it is used to justify censorship of speech that interferes with profits