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What's wrong with a curated forum for speech, especially if the guidelines are a part of the terms of service? Why does everything need to be all about free speech? No one forces you to use these tools, if they start censoring too much stuff, users can move onto another service. I'd much rather use sites where I can post without worrying about getting bombarded with hate messages. HN is such a kind place compared to twitter and Facebook.

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>Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited.

-RFK, "Value of Dissent" (21 March 1968)

The problem is that of blindness and group think. Every major advancement of human rights has been against the "terms of service" and were extremely uncomfortable ideas for the majority of people.

Getting your feelings hurt every now and again can be used as a catalyst for personal and moral growth just like exercising causes pain but increases health.

This is not about no-platforming, where the private company sets the terms of conduct for its users. This is about freedom of expression being encroached upon; the government (EC) is telling companies owned privately by shareholders, and used by its citizens, what opinions they can and can't express without fear of ramifications.

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