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View submission: Let's talk content. AMA.
You can ban serious hate speech (which is hard to define, but still easy enough to see, like pornography)
I would even disagree with this. You know, a lot of people would call black and white bondage photos "pornography;" lots of people would say it's "erotica," which somehow exempts it.
What, exactly, is serious hate speech? "Stop being a faggot, dude." Not "serious" enough? "Homosexuals are disgusting and will suffer." Hate speech? A threat? Or just someone who believes the Bible literally? Should we ban any Biblical literalists who clash with our modern, pluralistic values? What if they replace the word "homosexuals" with "faggots?"
"That's my nigger." A kid from the 'hood just expressing his affection for a close friend or laudable individual? Or a disgusting racist implying ownership of another human being? How can you know who's behind the screenname? How deep are you going to look into that before lowering the banhammer?
Whatever the policy turns out to be, what galls me is when people pretend there are sharp lines for content *they* don't like, when in fact it's always going to be blurry, and arbitrary.
There's nothing here!