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View submission: Can we ban this extremely racist asshole?
the point of free speech is to protect those you disagree with.
It is not. The point of free speech is to protect from *organised censorship by a government*. It has and cannot practically have any application outside that definition. The principles of free speech individually and whether an individual or group choose to apply those princples does, but that is a separate issue of *censorship*. It sounds like petty semantics (government versus everyone else) but the difference is immense.
If you owned a shop or some business, you presumably would not want some guy to come in and shout racial epithets at your other customers whenever he felt like it. Presumably you would not tell them to just ignore him and deal with it. It is a little different on the internet of course :) but not so much. Or what if it were your house?
The way it was described to me was like hosting a party. You want everyone to join in and have a good time. But you have to look after your guests as well and if someone is out of line and preventing others from having as good a time, then you have to show them the door. As the owners of a business, that is Reddit's ultimate responsibility. I am disappointed by people's lack of understanding.
Not you, I'm just saying.
There's nothing here!