Extreme anger and resentment - and the resulting words & actions directed at a person or group of people; often for reasons they can do nothing about i.e. religion, race etc. This is why we have things like the Equality Act 2010 which means people aren't subject to degradation or being treated like second class citizens for being who they are.
Speech you don't like? That's the whole problem, there is plenty of speech not to like. This target is moving and the broadest brush possible.
I happen to dislike hate speech but that's not what makes it something to be criminalised.
Certainly, those who directly call for violence and abuse need no platform but most of these guys are not like that. What about them?
How would you know? How many of the guys in the video are you familiar with?
The stupidity, of course, is thinking that the target will not move to some other undesirable group. In the 1950's it was commies, in the 60s and 70s gays, and no doubt after all of the Alex Jone's and Fox News channels are cleared out it might be YOU. Who are you? Well, they already know and you're already on the hit list -- they must have one, or they wouldn't be on with the shadow bans and page deletions. Are you 100% grade A liberal? If not, you're probably on the list somewhere. They'll start with the "problems" and see what happens, and if nothing does... Everyone else that talks about something they don't like will go next. Of course, what they don't like will change tomorrow. Obviously, no one is 100% this or that... Even the liberals... But, wrong-think will get you "unpersoned" like some science fiction Orwellian nightmare. If you think it can't happen keep your eyes closed, but the tremors of the catastrophe are already shaking the ground. Do you have a million dollars like Alex Jones to keep yourself on the Internet? Who's really dumb enough to not see where this is going?
You know, far-right politicians & activists have been saying things like this for decades - fear-mongering that 'the left' are trying to bring in some sort of thought-police-state or some ****. It's the same **** with 'they're going to take our guns away' - it hasn't happened and it's not going to happen. All this nonsense about 'freedom of speech' from the far-right is just dog-whistling for 'freedom from consequences for my bigotry'. Think I'm wrong? Look at the videos I posted. How do they react when confronted with opposing points of view? They go ape **** because they don't know how to deal with what they're looking at. If they'd read the blurb of any of those books they'd have gained an understanding of what the books are about. More broadly; look at Christian religious freedom laws in the States which allow employers to violate rights laws with impunity 'becoz Jesus'.
At least someone around here gets it...
The greatest irony of all is that the poem
@Altfish quoted undermines your position because it refers to people affected by far-right censorship and oppression. This censorship & oppression is the direct result of not de-platforming and silencing far-right bigotry wherever it rears its ugly head - thereby giving it the chance to seize power - because such things make it inherently dangerous for minorities, or pretty much anyone who dares to dissent, to work and live. Its called the
paradox of tolerance.
It doesn't matter if you are right or left or whatever...
I've yet to see you condemn a far-right attack on a socialist bookshop in this thread. You've just engaged in the expected apologetics and whataboutery that occurs whenever someone raises an example of right-wing ****tery.
Today the forces that be lean left on the Internet, but what is the left tomorrow and the next day? Think about the gap between classical liberalism and modern day progressive liberalism. Will the liberals ten years down the road consider you a liberal? Who knows... That's the whole freaking problem... I can't predict that, nor can anyone else.
You're over-analysing this; why not worry about whether a black hole is going to swallow the Earth tomorrow. How do we know it won't happen? That's the whole freaking problem, right?
We don't need to have these companies sanitize our content for us -- we can switch off the channel if we don't like it just like the old days. If we allow these people to be our gatekeepers they gain fair too much influence on us -- like being able to mind control everyone with propaganda by simply limiting the messages you can see, like ever.
That's cool and all but this isn't just about things we consume through the media because what people consume via media impacts how they act in the wider world. What about minorities who can't "switch off the channel"? What about some LGBT guy who gets fired from his job because his manager read in the paper that he's dating a male co-worker and "Christian religious freedom" laws say he can do that - whether the allegation is true or not? What about some black guy who's worried because neo-Nazis are holding open-carry rallies in his hometown and he's afraid to step outside because he might get spotted?
Start using social media like Minds, Gab, or *****ute (don't know why this forum censors bit-chute, lol) which are free speech absolutists. (barring illegal activity of course) Your connections are your votes... Put the votes in the right place.
Ah ha! So they
aren't free speech absolutists after all! There
are limits on what you can post! Censorship.
(sarcasm)
