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If you hate free speech, hate your own first and foremost and shut up.
Hate speech is not free speech.
Supreme Court disagrees with your claim. Hate speech is in fact free speech.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/06/19/supreme-court-unanimously-reaffirms-there-is-no-hate-speech-exception-to-the-first-amendment/
The Supreme Court of Canada, where this instance is based, disagrees with the position of the U.S. Supreme court. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Keegstra. CANLII link here: https://canlii.ca/t/2bnwz
Thank you, some fucking reason for once.
Thank you, I did forget this is a Canadian instance. Unfortunately it's incompatible with even free-ish speech, much less free speech.
I disagree, but I'll leave it at that. Neither of us is likely to say something the other hasn't heard and I'm not in the mood to debate free speech and its reasonable limits for a well-functioning society today.
Given the apparent culture of the instance in question, a higher than average risk of Canadian criminal law being violated exists. Given the repeated request from sh.itjust.works admins that no activities be taken that risk violations of Canadian law on this instance, it stands to reason that the instance in question should be defederated from to limit the exposure to sh.itjust.works.
I have no opinion about people creating an account elsewhere and participating in defederated instances should this not sit well with them.
Thanks for a reasonable approach. You are right about Canadian legalities.
Free speech is when you insult Trans people and the more you insult them the freer the speech. /s
This is a Canadian server, hate speech, by law, is not free speech here. Fuck off back to the circus you clown
Real civil discussion you're having there bud
I don't really care to be civil with people like that.
I love how you showcase your intolerance by dropping the veneer of civility as soon as you sense any opposition.
I see no reason to be tolerant of someone justifying why they should be allowed to say slurs.
Sounds like bigotry to me.
Trash take, opinion discarded
Literal definition of bigotry, look it up, bigot.
Seriously, dude has a massive hate boner for anyone that doesn't 100% agree with them.
Dude has little tolerance for bigots and idiots who will go to bat for hate speech. If you look in this thread you can find plenty of examples of me being reasonable with people who I disagree with.
Yeah, a bastion of civility you are.
Yeah, lol
This you?
Yeah post me being civil to prove how uncivil I'm being. Perhaps it's because you are making bad faith arguments.
That's civil?
That's civil?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_faith
The hypocrisy of making a comment in the OP about not down voting people that you disagree with and then down voting people you disagree with is just icing on the cake.
Lmao, stay mad.
Don't worry about me, I have very thick skin.
Every time you make those little incivil jabs you damage your credibility and demonstrate that you're incapable of having a conversation like an adult. All I have to do is keep you talking.
Dawg, I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire. You've been haunting my inbox like a ghost of a Tucker Carlson episode. I stopped caring about being civil with you, DarkwingDuck and goat days ago.
I'm not in your inbox, this is a message board and I'm posting comment.
Look at the wee man trapped in my inbox
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We literally never intersected until today, bigot.
Just block exploding heads and move on. Asking all of us to defederate with them or calling us bigots otherwise is you being unreasonable.
That's you buddy