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   Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jan-2023 12:17:02 JST Alexandre Oliva

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   • Hyolobrika
   I don't think it's about law, it's about ethics. law is about rights and powers (over others), and it sometimes tries to reflect what is right or wrong, which is ethics' business. freedom, though often misunderstood as absolute, is often about finding a balance of what is right for all parties involved. in portuguese, we say one's freedom extends up to where one's neighbor's freedom starts. in english, it's something along the lines that one's freedom to swing one's arm extends up to someone else's freedom to be standing right there. freedom can be constrained without being infringed upon, but invading someone else's freedom is unethical, wrong, it's not freedom. that's what makes hate speech problematic: it's nobody's freedom to deny someone else's right to exist, to be, or to express a wish that their existence is terminated by violent means, because that invades their freedom not only of speech, but every other freedom of theirs.
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     hyolobrika@berserker.town's status on Sunday, 08-Jan-2023 12:17:03 JST Hyolobrika

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     • Frankie Saxx

     @frankiesaxx What do you mean when you say that? Is that an opinion on the existing law of a particular country? An opinion on what the law of that country should be? An opinion on what kind of speech you do / do not want tolerated by the moderation of any space you choose to attend (physical or virtual)? A statement of what speech you do / do not tolerate in a space you moderate? A simple call for people to not be so hateful?
     Please clarify.

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     Frankie Saxx (frankiesaxx@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jan-2023 12:17:04 JST Frankie Saxx

     This is your daily reminder that free speech is not a synonym for hate speech.

     Hate speech is the anti-free speech, weaponised speech intended to intimidate and silence others. People who call hate speech "free speech" do not support or protect the speech of others.

     When you use free speech as a euphemism for hate speech, you help them spread the idea that free speech is bad into popular culture, which is the first step in dismantling it.

     Call hate speech what it is. :ablobcatcoffee: