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8Chan isn't being targeted because they hurt people's feelings, they're targeted for being a breeding ground for terrorists.

Feel free to make whatever argument you want about whether platforms should be forced to provide service to websites that radicalize terrorists, but please don't make this about something it's not.

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> please don't make this about something it's not.

No, you are. How do you think 8ch manages to be a breeding ground for terrorists? By kidnapping people and sending them off to terrorist training camps?

Obviously their method is emotional manipulation. That includes hurting people’s feelings. Censoring speech to protect people from that is a piss poor long term strategy compared to equipping them to properly deal with it. Society will end up as a bunch of babies unable to deal with reality.

Agree. We're well on our way to be honest. Might be no way of stopping it. It'll just swing around on it's own in a few hundred years.

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