I'm sure many of you have heard or read something about at least one Facebook page with a title which many witches are finding offensive. I'm not going to give you access to them from this blog nor will I mention them directly. The quick fervor whipped up around the name of this page, led me to all kinds of questions, and a few extremely important answers...and some perspective. I'd like to share what I've learned, hopefully it can move all of us forward on this issue.
Facebook doesn't get to decide what hate speech is, the law does.
When I reported the page for 'hate speech', as so many others had done, I was also told in a very fast reply, by an automated system on Facebook, that the page wasn't 'hate speech', and so it wouldn't be removed. How could that be? The title sure looked hateful to me!
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I tend to err on the side of giving idiots enough rope to hang themselves with, particularly given the free-speech tenets here in -
I disagree that your first reaction was over-blown. See, the thing is, with that page being based, as much as anyone could discern -
Cogent, dispassionate, comprehensive. I couldn't have said this better myself. Hear, hear!
