I find it curious how the same political forces can be on the offensive against online trolling and 4chan culture and at the same time defend offline trolling and harrasment as freedom of spewch. Regardless of my own opinion on the matter, it's just illogical.
I think the argument centers around the idea that hatespeech should be banned, or something.
I don't care: I know where I stand. Free speech is a good thing, even with sites like 4chan, and if you don't wish people to speak freely within a website or location, make the rules for what they can say known ahead of time, and enforce them fairly.
I specifically didn't state my opinion on the matter here, because it's irrelevant: I'm only highlighting the inconsistency of "left"'s position. Your position doesn't have this inconsistency and therefore, is much more logical.
I don't know about my position not being left. I mean, I am pretty left. I think the difference is, I'm not insane, so you don't hear my position on the nightly news. There are as many crazy leftists are there are crazy rightists: the trick is to avoid both.
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I find it curious how the same political forces can be on the offensive against online trolling and 4chan culture and at the same time defend offline trolling and harrasment as freedom of spewch. Regardless of my own opinion on the matter, it's just illogical.
I think the argument centers around the idea that hatespeech should be banned, or something.
I don't care: I know where I stand. Free speech is a good thing, even with sites like 4chan, and if you don't wish people to speak freely within a website or location, make the rules for what they can say known ahead of time, and enforce them fairly.
I specifically didn't state my opinion on the matter here, because it's irrelevant: I'm only highlighting the inconsistency of "left"'s position. Your position doesn't have this inconsistency and therefore, is much more logical.
I don't know about my position not being left. I mean, I am pretty left. I think the difference is, I'm not insane, so you don't hear my position on the nightly news. There are as many crazy leftists are there are crazy rightists: the trick is to avoid both.