ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoIs it possible to have a "free speech" platform that simultaneously stops "hate speech"?message-squaremessage-square85fedilinkarrow-up195arrow-down18
arrow-up187arrow-down1message-squareIs it possible to have a "free speech" platform that simultaneously stops "hate speech"?ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square85fedilink
minus-squareColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down6·1 month agoSays who? Who decided that free speech got an asterisk? Who makes and enforces the rules and limitations?
minus-squaresilly goose meekah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoAnother comment explained it pretty nicely: But you can’t have [a platform with absolute free speech] while allowing for hate speech either because hate speech silences the voices of its target. It’s basically the tolerance paradox but with free speech.
minus-squaredan1101@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoThe owners and operators of the platform.
Says who? Who decided that free speech got an asterisk? Who makes and enforces the rules and limitations?
Another comment explained it pretty nicely:
It’s basically the tolerance paradox but with free speech.
The owners and operators of the platform.