• circuscritic@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    No, I’m a free speech absolutist when it comes to private citizens. Be they communists, Nazis, Democrats, trolls, assholes or furries, the government should have no role in regulating their speech outside of reasonable exceptions i.e. yelling fire in a crowded theater, threats of physical violence, etc.

    My moral conviction on relative free speech absolutism ends at the articles of incorporation, or other nakedly profit driven speech e.g. market manipulation.

    So if the trolls and ban evaders are acting on behalf of a company, or for profit driven interests, their speech should be regulated. If they’re just assholes or trolls, that’s a problem for the website and mod teams.