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by joomooru 1602 days ago
Funny thing is with these "free speech" advocates, allowing hate speech (antisemitism, racism, sexism, etc.) on your platform is anything but politically neutral. It's obviously capitulating to hateful groups like white supremacists/neonazis.
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You can always not read/watch/support people you dislike.

Censors are biased like everyone else. There are always extra casualties.

Tell that to the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting victims: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network)#2018_Pitt...
Well good thing no bad person has ever posted on Facebook.. or Twitter.. or Instagram.. or written a manifesto and sent it via USPS.

Facebook has literally been used to livestream rape and murder!

And your own source says Gab turned everything over to the FBI. What, exactly, is the fault here? Them not having a time machine?

Gab can always run their own F-Droid repository, as well.
Of course it's politically neutral. Inaction is neutral.
Sorry, political neutrality doesn't exist.

Inaction in the face of injustice, means you are advocating for the status quo. E.g. the white moderate from Letter from Birmingham Jail.

Then radical left speech shouldn't be allowed either, but many Mastodon instances allow communists (like, they literally call themselves communist) without any issue.
Once again, the goal isn't to be politically neutral.