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Big Tech has a big problem with Florida passing a law that protects politicians from web moderation

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Pedantic

@Duncan Macdonald “(except when Trump banned Muslims from many countries!!)”

He banned countries the citizens of or all travel from can’t remember which, countries are not race/colour/religion. I know I am being pedantic all those countries were Muslim it feels racist to me.

But a Nation State is not a protected attribute and should not be equated to Race/colour/religion for instance criticism of Israel is not criticism of Judaism.

Now I don’t know what is legal and what is not, but you can’t equate “cater to the speech of most far right nutters” to “decline to carry such speech”. Decline is to ban while cater to still allows all.

So while I feel the same as you about far right nutters banning their speech means you can hardly complain when yours is banned. That does not mean that speech that is illegal such as incitement to cause violence hate speech etc should not be actionable (removed, banned or prosecution).

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