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RE: You can't stop fascism by becoming fascist and you can't beat hate with a ban hammer
I really don't know why they say fascism is far right if it is clearly a collectivist regime, with no respect to individual liberties. Evething is done in the name of the State. To me it resembles the communist regimes.
Exactly! If people actually understood this then we would understand exactly the problem with some of the "left solutions" to hate speech. Sometimes the solutions being put forward as policies on the left are as bad strategically as the solutions we saw under Stalin in Communism. Sure under Stalin the Nazis were beaten and fascists kicked out of the Soviet Union and most of the world, but it doesn't change the fact that life wasn't so great under those policies. At the end of the day it's about the quality of life and while it makes sense to let people determine what speech they don't want around them personally (or professionally), it's a completely different agenda to set the tone nationally for people everywhere.
In your home, in your environment, you and your shareholders set the tone. In another home and environment the tone can be different. But there is great danger in giving the power to police speech to any government. We can look at the 1950s to see how the US was prior to free speech, plenty of hate existed.