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Free speech as a guiding principle sounded so good when Reddit was created, and mostly it enabled neo-Nazis to recruit outside of Stormfront (lemmy.ml)
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Turns out there are plenty of things more worthy of fighting for than enabling fascists and terrorists to lure in vulnerable people and harass marginalized people

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[–] Madbrad200 1 points 1 year ago

People do not understand that free speech only applies to governments, because governments are supposed to have a monopoly on violence

People understand this. There's a difference between free speech laws and free speech as a philosophy.