Censorship at its finest.

[Rockman]

Originally Posted by Wrongside

What do any of these government services have to do with the topic at hand- censorship and freedom from government control of thought and speech? Whether a person supports or rejects any of the above, has no bearing on their individual stance on censorship... Are you rambling, or purposely trying to be divisive?

In spite of people like you trying to make it so, freedom of speech isn't about where a person lands on the political spectrum. Or at least it shouldn't be. It should be about the absolute right to think and speak as you wish. (With the obvious exception of inciting violence or harm.) Yes, that does mean some people's speech will be offensive or down right stupid... Allowing everyone and anyone- including the stupid and offensive amongst us- to speak freely, may have some risks attached. But the danger of not allowing that is far, far greater with the handing over of the power to censor any thought or speech to some faceless bureaucrat or crooked politician.

I'm 100% with this guy. You can't shut every idiot spewing stupid stuff. Also... there are laws that can be applied to shut down (actual) hate speech, and private services such as FB and Google can do whatever they want to shut down anyone they disagree with, which they have used liberally (and unwisely, in part, IMHO).

If you look back at how Hitler and similar disasters in history came about, the slipper slope was veeeery similar!

[Ishpah]

Originally Posted by wildwoods

And who thinks it's a great idea to let government censor what is extreme and what isn't. Sounds like a slippery Nazi slope to me

The right gets the tag as Nazis or fascists.
Since this is a left leaning government trying to advance this crap, perhaps it would be appropriate to label it as a page out of Stalin's communistic agenda.