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March 29, 2005
Knifefights On The Internet
There have been some nasty suppression fights on the internet lately. First there was the GayPatriot fracas, which is still reverberating around the blogosphere.
Now there's more questionable goings-on from Google: the Jawa Report has been dropped from Google News, for supposed "hate speech".
"Hate speech", "offensive writing", "hurtful words"--why, why is so hard to understand that someone, some distinct fallible human, has to define what hate is, what's offensive, and what's hurtful? And that their definition just might not be accurate, or well-reasoned, or just?
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