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coffeesp00ns  ·  2605 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Free Speech and the Paradox of Tolerance

    You say 'We didn't ignore him, we reacted to offensive things and took steps to minimize our contact with offensive things which is not ignoring him.'

Actually, what I'm saying is that we took steps that prevented not just us, but other people from seeing his content, specifically. That's the difference.





OftenBen  ·  2605 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Self-moderation. Still counts as 'ignoring' in my book. It's like shutting the door on the polite neo-nazi going door to door. Your dinner guests go 'Who was that?' and you reply 'Just an annoying troll.'