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by xadhominemx 1330 days ago
They don’t have the right to say hateful things about someone on someone else’s platform. They had a privilege, which was conditionally revoked.
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Saying "the Earth is round" is hateful from the perspective of flat earthers. Would you apply the same logic equally and make it an offense to satirize this particular belief?

Or to bring it full circle, I doubt the Bee would petition to get someone banned for satirizing "God" or saying "God is not real". If they did, we would call it out too.

Yes, obviously Twitter got to decide which hateful statements were prohibited and which were not.
You can trust Twitter and activists to make those decisions all you like. But don't expect people to stand by and accept that as an acceptable solution to societies problems.

Because you're making these zero-transparency and zero-due process systems fill this role. Which is naive and idealistic in the worst ways.

I would probably believe in these exact things when I was an ill-formed and very socially concerned 16 year old, but I can't honestly take that position today. The only people I see taking this position are people willing to gamble for today for short term gains of their pet ideologies while ignoring long term harm.

Like satirists posting pictures of Muhammad?
If Twitter was the government of the United States and subject to first amendment restrictions, you would have a point.
Let's say you have a big nose and you're out on the town attending a comedy club.

A comedian gets up during his stand up routine and comments on your big nose, which you're sensitive about and wish no one would comment on, since you've always wanted a small, delicate nose, and in fact you've scheduled surgery to 'fix' it.

After they comment on your nose you loudly protest and ask the comedian to cease, since you really don't think the nose represents the true 'you.'

Is it 'hate' for the comedian, against your wishes to continue to make jokes that night, and in fact, he finds the whole exchange (and you) so funny that he incorporates the exchange into all his routines going forward?

I'd argue that it is maybe a bit rude, but it is exactly why we have people like comedians- they are the court jesters for our society, they point out when our good intentions turn into pathologies and give us room to reflect on progressive and regressive overreach.

Taking that out of the public sphere removes a good chunk of society's ability to make course corrections.