So called 'hate speech' is a very silly concept in my opinion.
Simply because if I said 'Imagine a creative and edgy insult here' there are two ways to respond to it, the first way is to do what most people would and go 'crikey that's a bit mean but I don't really care' and shrug it off or you go 'OMG that's so HATEFUL I am so offended REEEEEE'. It can also be horrifically abused as if I don't like someone, I could just report everything they say as hate speech to get them banned. Or someone could provoke someone into using 'hate speech' against them and then report that person as a method of trolling. (This is sort of what TheOldColonel did to me in the early days of SP)
You cannot have such an unfathomably vast grey area in the rules of a website, especially a forum website where such things as tone of voice and facial expression are meaningless as words can be interpreted in a completely different way by different people.
Then you have people using 'hate speech' rules to silence unpopular opinions.
It is better to make the rules more specific.
Or have hate speech defined more like abusive or harrassing speech.
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5.9 years ago@KellyxJohnson r/woosh
5.9 years agoSo called 'hate speech' is a very silly concept in my opinion.
Simply because if I said 'Imagine a creative and edgy insult here' there are two ways to respond to it, the first way is to do what most people would and go 'crikey that's a bit mean but I don't really care' and shrug it off or you go 'OMG that's so HATEFUL I am so offended REEEEEE'. It can also be horrifically abused as if I don't like someone, I could just report everything they say as hate speech to get them banned. Or someone could provoke someone into using 'hate speech' against them and then report that person as a method of trolling. (This is sort of what TheOldColonel did to me in the early days of SP)
You cannot have such an unfathomably vast grey area in the rules of a website, especially a forum website where such things as tone of voice and facial expression are meaningless as words can be interpreted in a completely different way by different people.
Then you have people using 'hate speech' rules to silence unpopular opinions.
It is better to make the rules more specific.
Or have hate speech defined more like abusive or harrassing speech.
@Tully2001
+1 6.0 years ago