[saagarjha]

I think most of the people who push for free speech understand that sometimes people say things that almost everyone disagrees with. It's easy to sit back and call something "hate speech" or "inciting violence" or any other set of labels but in practice those who push free speech understand that while the examples brought up are usually fairly clear it can be complicated in general. I would suggest you assume a bit more good faith from the people you're arguing against.

[pera]

I don't think gp assumes bad faith. The problem I see is that free speech absolutism is currently serving as a platform to protect those who are making death threats in social networks.

Sure sometimes is difficult to discern whether a post was an actual threat or just figurative language, but is it really that terrible to delete a post that was calling to shoot people even when maybe the intention was "just figurative"?

[saagarjha]

I'm sorry, but calling a comment "bootlicking" does not imply good faith, nor does a claim that their viewpoint overlooks Nazis or murder.

But to your comment, which I think I can respond to: if I perform illegal activities on a platform, I don't think there's really a choice at that point as to whether the platform can take it down. Death threats, posting child pornography, infringing upon copyright…all of those are things you can go to jail for anyways, so it's not really a "free speech online" issue at that point.