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by lotsofpulp 629 days ago
If the government is allowing some people to suppress others, it’s still the government doing the suppressing.

Note that not being able to use other people’s computers/bandwidth is not suppression.

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Hate speech is free speech. "Not being able to use other people's computers" is nice, but when private discussion forums make functionality changes that help to alter the outcome of elections, things start getting deadly serious, and we need to stop dressing up what we're doing in nice language like "not being able to use other people's computers/bandwidth". Just say it: we need to reserve the right to censor some individuals at will.
You are free to spend your time and money to help people broadcast whatever message they want.

And others are free to not spend their time and money to help people broadcast whatever message they want.