Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content

• Wilco@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yes, sadly, freedom of speech includes freedom of hate speech. The platform would have to rely on its users downvoting or ridiculing the offender rather than outright bans.

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  • samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    See Twitter to see what “free speech absolutism” gets you. The hateful stuff will quickly overrun and take over the platform, chasing decent people away.

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    • Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Twitter isn’t even remotely pro-free-speech; much like Reddit, they claim to be in order to defend the worst people on the platform, while routinely deleting or banning people for speech they disagree with

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      • samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That’s correct. But it starts by allowing hate speech. Can you give an example of a single platform that allows it that didn’t become a toxic shithole?

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    • Wilco@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I understand what you are trying to say, but Twitter is far from free speech. Twitter is a mob/mind control device. It brings hatred to the forefront. The worst posts thrown right into people’s faces, then they tailor the content to focus the hatred.
      One only needs to type the words “Cis Gender” in Twitter to see the censorship, the hatred, and the target all working together.

      That’s not free speech, it’s brainwashing. Reddit is just as bad.

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      • samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Yes, I know. That’s what always happens if you allow hate speech - it takes over and suppresses dissent.

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