Hate speech creates a hostile environment that prevents people from marginalized groups from being able to participate. Effectively resulting in a ban.
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Replying to @SortofSalient @GearyDigit and
A hostile environment does not stop people from speaking, If someone chooses not to speak because of the environment then that is on them, They are not being forced to stop speaking they are choosing to but a ban prevents someone from speaking completely
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Replying to @ElectricLizardz @GearyDigit and
If you were a jew, and found yourself in a town hall meeting with a bunch of Nazis, would you really step up to the podium? Could anyone blame you for not doing it? Can you not see how such an environment creates an effective "soft ban" on certain speech and people?
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Replying to @SortofSalient @GearyDigit and
Yes I would, If I was in that situation then I would as long as I have my physical protection guaranteed then I would. Quite Simply a hostile environment does not stop people from speaking, I can understand that it might make it uncomfortable but it does not prevent them...
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Replying to @ElectricLizardz @GearyDigit and
If you are truly pro free speech, then you should be against hate speech. You would realize that hate speech, PREVENTS the free speech of other people, it just does so in a way to try and circumvent the technical rules. That's the point. That's always been the point.
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Replying to @SortofSalient @GearyDigit and
Hate Speech is Free Speech, Free Speech means that all speech is free not just some speech, People insulting certain groups of people does not prevent that group from speaking and if they choose not to then that is on them
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Replying to @ElectricLizardz @GearyDigit and
Hate speech impedes marginalized people's speech. I don't care if someone can technically still participate, I care if they can effectively participate at the same level as everyone else. It's for this reason banning people for hate speech is a pro free speech action.
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Replying to @SortofSalient @GearyDigit and
I simply disagree, Insults do not prevent someone from speaking, They can still choose to speak and if they choose not to then that is on them, I quite simply do not know how someone can delude themself so much as to believe that censoring speech is supporting free speech.
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Replying to @ElectricLizardz @GearyDigit and
A black person in the deep south during Jim Crow era, was technically equal to a white person. But effectively, there was a vast disparity. An LGBTQ person is technically equal to a Christian, but they don't have the same effective protections and gaurentees in society.
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Replying to @SortofSalient @GearyDigit and
That is a completely different back in that time there were laws that made them unequal however on Twitter. That is also a completely different scenario, I am talking about speech and your freedom to express yourself...
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Just the same, there is an technical standard that someone pushed out of a space by rampant hate speech, could still comment and as such technically still has free speech, they cannot effectively comment because the environment is overtly hostile to them.
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Replying to @SortofSalient @GearyDigit and
Yes they can because a hostile environment does not stop them from speaking, They can speak and they choose not to.
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