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by gwbas1c 2542 days ago
Over the last few years I've been questioning what it means to have freedom of speech. This quote in particular strikes me:

> Finally, censorship is always bad, for a variety of well understood reasons that we don't need to repeat here. But in the case of some types of content, it has special dangers. When you censor a web site based on the extreme or dangerous views of its creator(s), you haven't stopped those people from thinking that way.

Why? The problem is that I've seen someone who was very close to me repost propaganda on Facebook that looks like it's following the Nazi propaganda playbook. Stuff against immigrants, against religious minorities, ect. Just take some classic Nazi propaganda, swap out "jew", and that's this person reposts.

(Or used to, as this person recently complained that Facebook is blocking their posts.)

Anyway, I don't think that this person really thinks this way; instead I think this person's thinking is manipulated to push a political agenda.