Social media giants have recently been targeting supporters of Donald Trump and conservatives flr not using toady speech. MSN threatened to take down and alt-right site named GAB for letting a poster write something NAZI replicant about liquidating Jews. Because inciting violence in certain contexts is illegal MSN had little choice about pulling thr plug on GAB if it allowed such violations of law to occur.
That is reasonable enough. The Internet is not a sanctuary for crimes. Taking down Alex Jones web sites for breaking the fine print in corporate policy for users is something else. They allow content to go on sometimes for years then take it down when it will do the most damage. Hate speech is a subjective term. When certain language is merely incidental and the natural vernacular that occurs in the English language it is a hard thing to deny someone free speech. Not even the Obama administration would be seeking to prosecute posters for using words like fag, queer, scum or whatever in a politically disapprobative paradigm in regard to hiomosexual marriage laws or whatever.
The Internet giants and the Apple corporation have taken web page down for the language because their leadership is sometimes queer, and they descry pejorative appellations applicable for-themselves. Some of the majors should rethink their use of lawful language they have classified subjectively as hate speech. Big queer brothers as minders do crimp civil liberties, and that may be their intent.
That is reasonable enough. The Internet is not a sanctuary for crimes. Taking down Alex Jones web sites for breaking the fine print in corporate policy for users is something else. They allow content to go on sometimes for years then take it down when it will do the most damage. Hate speech is a subjective term. When certain language is merely incidental and the natural vernacular that occurs in the English language it is a hard thing to deny someone free speech. Not even the Obama administration would be seeking to prosecute posters for using words like fag, queer, scum or whatever in a politically disapprobative paradigm in regard to hiomosexual marriage laws or whatever.
The Internet giants and the Apple corporation have taken web page down for the language because their leadership is sometimes queer, and they descry pejorative appellations applicable for-themselves. Some of the majors should rethink their use of lawful language they have classified subjectively as hate speech. Big queer brothers as minders do crimp civil liberties, and that may be their intent.
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