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by vorpalhex 1385 days ago
But you as a private individual or company can choose to hold the right to free speech in high regard.
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I hold it in such high regard that I have considered the question of whether or not Kiwifarms inhibits free speech.
Yup. And if your choice is pro-nazi, the rest of us can decide for ourselves what that means about you.

For what it's worth, you can't be just a little bit Nazi.

It's like poop in ice cream: if you have ten tons of ice cream and an ounce of poop, if you mix them together, you've just created ten tons of poop.

> It's like poop in ice cream: if you have ten tons of ice cream and an ounce of poop, if you mix them together, you've just created ten tons of poop.

In that case your argument fails, because there are regulations for how much rat feces are permitted in processed food, and just FYI, it's NOT zero.

If everyone who disagrees with you is a Nazi and you believe we should restrict their rights, limit their speech and so on... you may be projecting.
check the paradox of tolerance
Are you ok with prohibiting the spread of Islam?

Islam is incompatible with tolerance. Women's rights, depictions of Muhammed, etc.

If we accept the paradox of tolerance you must either be anti-Islam or the paradox is broken.

The fix is not new and is older than the paradox of tolerance: your rights end where mine begin. You have a right to write and speak what you will - I have a right to not listen. I do not have a right to stop speech I find offensive. Islam has a right to exist and take offense, but it may not use violence or law to get it's way.

you’re implying the spread of islam is the spread of activists who incite action toward its worst parts, the same goes for christianity of course: I’m ok with prohibiting (and socially over state violence…) speech that incites active participation in applying its worst parts which oppress. btw it’s stinky to use islam as your example and in an american context when it’s as obviously applicable to everything else and not something special to islam over most any other popular religion. the same shit applies with womens rights and christian movements in the US which are in fact taking oppressive political action with wide impact
Women can't drive or have attorneys in Islamic nations and you think my use of them in an example is stinky? You want to argue about abortion rights when women literally can't leave their homes without a male guardian and hiding their face?