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So who get's to define evil? It's incredibly dangerous game to restrict free speech in this way and force political alignment .. no one is forcing anyone to agree with anything anyone says, but to outright ban certain topics of discussion is a dark road to follow.

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> So who get's to define evil?

The people who are running the site?

> but to outright ban certain topics of discussion is a dark road to follow

Is there any actual useful discussion site (which excludes the various *chans) that allows unfettered discussion?

There are two things that need to be understood, there is the discourse and then there is the way the discourse is conducted - which can very easily break the law. HN does not restrict discourse, just how it is conducted. What rpg.net has done is restrict discourse; instead of it's conduct. As I said, a dark road to follow.

I don't know where to draw the line, but when we start separating families and putting now-unaccompanied children in camps and deporting them separately, I know it's clearly evil.

  when we start separating families and putting now-unaccompanied children in camps

That started under the Obama administration.

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