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Gate speech laws are kinda like vaccines. They don’t stop it but they sure do keep it from spreading to everyone. End of the day A Nazi doesn’t have anything to say and doesn’t deserve the protections to be able to say it. They fact that we can decent this is what makes us humans or else it’s just computers applying filters

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Not directed at this comment, one of the minority like it. But These hacker news posts where the majority of comments treat private companies like Twitter and Facebook censoring neonazi propaganda as if they are censoring unions or advocates of universal health care make me really dismayed at hacker news. It’s like they say there are really no way humans are capable of distinguishing between literal white nationalist extremist views and people advocating for universal health care. It really makes me question the user base of hacker news

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