Re: [Trisquel-users] EU: All your internet are belong to us

[dguthrie]

No it does have relevance. Unless you have been living under a rock for  
centuries, it might be obvious that the views David Duke espouses very often  
qualify as hate speech. He was a former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan!  
They fucking lynch black people and go around shooting and intimidating them!  
He denies the Holocaust which killed millions of people in Europe, due to the  
fascist, racist ideology he subscribes to! So you chose the absolute worst  
example possible! It's abhorrent. You say he speaks the truth... You are  
obviously extremely gullible. You brought it up, and furthermore say that  
this video is the truth. It catastrophically undermines any semblance of  
argument that these anti-hate speech laws undermine free speech.

I will reiterate. They are not banning people from saying these things, just  
that the poisonous language be kept away from public forums. Why don't you  
challenge it in the courts? I don't think this really is worse than the  
moderation that already occurs on these websites. They have double-standards  
but it is their premises, and not the issue here. It is more like a  
no-platform issue for these views. All the GNU Social instances block hate  
speech and it is clearly defined, as here, is that an attack on free speech?