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I'll add a part on to my website where I'll add exeptions to some of the points I have made.

"Hate Speech" should be mandatory, being offensive is a public service

sines-and-cymbals what on EARTH are you talking about vro

For my part, based on the content of your site, I thought it was kind of clear the playful "misinformation peddling" was referring to airy things like occult topics, wacky conspiracy theories etc rather than "eugenics" or "holocaust denial".

There needs to be standards/oversight for the veracity of information conveyed in encyclopedias, journals, news media, textbooks etc but I don't think this enforcement should apply to random individuals using social media (even if I find what they're saying REALLY odious) barring exceptions like specific/targeted harrassment of other individuals.

All speech can be perceived as “hate speech” if the hearer is sensitive enough. A free speech policy that doesn't permit hate speech is functionally the same as no free speech policy at all.

Right, like I wonder what their opinion of minority groups are🤔 Also, they never heard of the paradox of intolerance. Plus misinformation is literally how you get white supremacists and genocide deniers.

Actually, governments actively suppressing any information contrary to the Official Narrative(tm) and encouraging its people to aggressively reject any ideas that don't have the Official Stamp of Approval(tm) is how we get Nazi Germany, communist China, innocent people enlisting to fight in every greed-driven war ever, etc... It's called propaganda, and you're not immune to it.

Girly pop, do you think it was the government that created Nazism and communism? And not people taking advantage of dumb asses who believed in pseudoscience? It's also propaganda to spread misinfo that could end someone's life just cuz the gov said it. Also while the us gov is undeniably currently denying a genocide, it wasn't denying past genocides. It was a non gov official

On my second sentence, I meant that it's misinformation to dismiss any scientific backing/claims the gov made just cuz the gov said it.

Do I think that the government... had a hand in upholding and enforcing dictatorships? I.e., a system of government? Yes, by definition. Hitler was Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the German army, not some guerilla rebel. Suppression of information is a key characteristic of any dictatorship. The government making laws about what kind of information is and isn't allowed to be shared and shadowbanning alternative source

s of information from popular search engines is an extremely slippery slope, and is a violation of freedom of speech. I'm obviously not talking about speech that incites any kind of criminal activity, and I'm also not talking about claiming something is untrue "just because the government said it." I'm talking about the vital importance of the ability to independently gather information from a variety of sources and

then use your own critical thinking skills to come to a conclusion, rather than defaulting to a single, prepackaged, government- (or popular social media-) endorsed narrative.

On an unrelated note, I genuinely really like your website. It feels like a colorful, magical tome you'd find in the back of a mysterious used book store. I especially like your orca, I feel like there aren't enough magical dolphin/orca OCs.

Don't listen to the haters, king

There's a fine line in restricting speech for the purposes of protecting people and that restriction going too far. I am largely of the mind that we shouldn't enforce governmental censorship due to the notion that a central authority ought to have power over speech to any substantial degree. I do, however, support ideas of anti-harrassment laws, and support platforms preventing harmful speech from being promoted

I have a lot to say about this actually, so I might make a full post about it on my website

anyone in this thread smoke weed

I'm not sure what the intention is behind this statement, but given the context of subjects they want to cover on their site, I have doubts that Nazis crossed their mind.