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There's a difference between mere 'alternate opinions' and hateful, prejudiced opinions.

It's seems disingenuous for you to conflate them.

The line between the two varies, and is subject to the whims of whoever controls the platform.

The even bigger problem is we're assuming they were banned for "hate" speech because Twitter hasn't even said why yet. If they took down tweets that they felt were hate speech and communicated to the speaker and the community I would be more okay with it. A silent ban of dozens of accounts is their right as a business but I'll still say it's a stupid decision.

Bear in mind that some people consider this site to be sexist and racist - check out the #hnwatch hashtag on Twitter. Everyone commenting here "good", consider that as a member of HN, others tar you with the same brush. Still so happy?

> check out the #hnwatch hashtag on Twitter

I didn't know that hashtag and was not surprised to see that one of its regular users is someone who likes to use autism as a metaphor for men working in tech.

Mind sharing an example/hypothetical of it being relative?

Yeah... probably not.

You're right... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_by_govern...