JankyJeff

My wife & I were watching the news (ok, I was browsing on my phone) and my wife yells out "Hey, isn't that Linus on TV ?!?!?"  SO we rewound the DVR, and sure as sh!t, there was Linus, the standing desk and the oil cooled PC (they never mentioned him, the channel or anything, but used him as background video for a discussion on sit/stand desks)
 
 
 

My wife & I were watching the news (ok, I was browsing on my phone) and my wife yells out "Hey, isn't that Linus on TV ?!?!?"  SO we rewound the DVR, and sure as sh!t, there was Linus, the standing desk and the oil cooled PC (they never mentioned him, the channel or anything, but used him as background video for a discussion on sit/stand desks)
 
 
 

My wife & I were watching the news (ok, I was browsing on my phone) and my wife yells out "Hey, isn't that Linus on TV ?!?!?"  SO we rewound the DVR, and sure as sh!t, there was Linus, the standing desk and the oil cooled PC (they never mentioned him, the channel or anything, but used him as background video for a discussion on sit/stand desks)
 
 
 

My wife & I were watching the news (ok, I was browsing on my phone) and my wife yells out "Hey, isn't that Linus on TV ?!?!?"  SO we rewound the DVR, and sure as sh!t, there was Linus, the standing desk and the oil cooled PC (they never mentioned him, the channel or anything, but used him as background video for a discussion on sit/stand desks)
 
 
 

My wife & I were watching the news (ok, I was browsing on my phone) and my wife yells out "Hey, isn't that Linus on TV ?!?!?"  SO we rewound the DVR, and sure as sh!t, there was Linus, the standing desk and the oil cooled PC (they never mentioned him, the channel or anything, but used him as background video for a discussion on sit/stand desks)
 
 
 

I kinda wish people would stop saying free speech is a right...  It's not and in most countries, there is no free speech.  The UK, for one, does not allow free speech, that's why we have hate crimes including hate speech and that's fine by me.
 
Sure, there's the whole 'words are only that and they can't hurt you', but at the same time words can have a huge effect on how 'other' people may act.
 
If you say something that incites prejudiced hatred, violence or something else along those lines, then yes, you 'should' be able to be held accountable, banned from sites and the like.
 
People use freedom of speech as a mask online to hide acts that in person would be a criminal act.  If something would be a crime in the real world, then I'd argue it should be a crime in the digital world also.

With "political views" being double-speak for "racism and/or sexism", ergo nothing worthwhile was lost.

Some people just need a place to whinge and cry about their existence. 

That's not how it works, from what I can see. You're commenting over on Dissenter on their platform, no one here would see it and likely wouldn't care either. I don't care about what people say on twitter or facebook as I don't use either, if I did I wouldn't care either unless the comments were directed to me about me then I exercise my right of reply.
 
People on the internet can rant about whatever they like it doesn't effect me, not unless they come to my house and yell at me directly. That's the trick to the internet, you can actually ignore people. I do however believe that moderation is required and situations of law breaking, incites to violence etc be dealt with as necessary, I also have zero time for the 'slippery slope' argument. Because again if you're not happy with how moderation is being done, you can move on.
 
Most people have reasonable common sense, can identify actual problematic issues and sort out situations with proper care. There just needs to be less bending over to the loud minority and trusting your own judgement. 
 
Also this isn't really tech news so it's likely going to be moved to general discussion. I would move it myself but I wanted to comment on this topic.

My wife & I were watching the news (ok, I was browsing on my phone) and my wife yells out "Hey, isn't that Linus on TV ?!?!?"  SO we rewound the DVR, and sure as sh!t, there was Linus, the standing desk and the oil cooled PC (they never mentioned him, the channel or anything, but used him as background video for a discussion on sit/stand desks)