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I dont think people would have flocked to these platforms if they'd known that they'd be banned for politically incorrect speech down the road.


"Civil rights isn't politics", so, speech against civil rights isn't politically incorrect.

(there's also definitely PC/P!C speech, but AFAIK that's not what's getting banned).


Thats a great trick just label anything you don't want debated a "right."


To your point, rights only exist if people in society uphold them for you. There isn't anything magical about calling something a right.

Speech can be both politically incorrect and incite flamewars or violence. At some point, public health and safety is the concern beyond politics. I think we want politically incorrect speech to have a space on Twitter so that it can be publicly challenged but it should stop short of encouraging violence like we saw in Charlottesville.


Thanks, learned from the best - the Declaration of Independence. /snark

In all seriousness, what do you view as debatable about civil rights?


i don't think people would have flocked to these platforms if they knew it'd be shared with nazis.




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