Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content
Wilco@lemm.ee 7 hours agoYes, 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.
samus12345@lemm.ee 6 hours 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.
Revan343@lemmy.ca 6 hours 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
samus12345@lemm.ee 5 hours 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?