A U.S. senator is coming to the defense of someone who spent two years calling me a “lispy queer.”
They do this because they know that @YouTube cares more about looking fair to right-wingers than it does about stopping hate speech and harassment.https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1136627469946183680 …
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He called you a "lispy queer" once. Stop getting your panties in a bunch. Jeez. Crowder created over 400 hours of content since Feb 1, 2017 (the date your first Strikethrough vid was released). You showed us an 85 second video. That's 0.006% of his content.
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"Your honor, the defendant has been a law-abiding citizen for 42 years of his life, and spent only 2 minutes of it stabbing the victim to death, which is less than like 0.0001% of his life. The defense would like the prosecution to stop getting their panties in a bunch about it"
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Speech isn’t violence, you dolt.
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The analogy doesn’t work if speech isn’t crime.
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he's not accused of violating a crime. He's accused of violating YouTube's Harassment Policy, which
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Okay, but under that “harassment” policy, even people like Maza could be found ‘guilty.’ It’s ill-defined, because it presumes speech can be innately offensive, which it can’t be.
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Even aside from that, a lot of people arguing against Maza trying to deplatform Crowder (myself included) are doing so b/c we believe in fostering a culture of ‘free speech.’ While it’s not legally applicable here, it’s a concept that should be societally enforced.
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I see absolutely zero downsides from censoring the subset of "Free Speech" that is literally just personal, demeaning, toxic slurs, it accomplishes nothing at best, and at worst just pisses everyone off. He's still welcome to argue central core ideas without all the ad homs.
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