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		eeZah7Ux on May 18, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments o... Not so fast. All societies need to draw a line on where speech constitute offense, libel, or even death threats.

101404 on May 18, 2020 [–]

Societies, yes.

But when compones do it, they will use the lowest bar, because they have a financial interest to keep even the most unreasonable person as a customer.

eeZah7Ux on May 18, 2020 | [–]

I fully agree that companies should not have this power. But this was not my point: I wrote "societies".

Downvoters: care to explain?

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