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You're confused. This has nothing to do with "free speech" rights. This is a confusion that many right-wingers seem to suffer from.

There's no "free speech" relevance when you act like an asshole, and people call you on it. It just means that you're being treated like an asshole should be treated.

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Free speech includes being an asshole. HNs voting algoritym is popular speech however. Lets not conflate.

Free speech also includes calling other who are being assholes out on being an asshole, and choosing not to associate with them.

One is entitled to say what they want. One is not entitled to a platform to say it on, nor are they entitled to not have consequences of saying those things.

Free speech includes being an asshole and not being jailed for it; it doesn't include the absence of other consequences.

Legally protected free speech is roughly as you describe. A platform built on providing free speech would be held to a different (higher?) standard. If twitter considers itself the latter would be a separate debate.

How was I being an asshole? I mean in my first comment. The second one was angry of course.

By trying to equate actual free-speech issues with a noted white supremacist and hate speech, maybe?

Hate speech is free speech. I think you're the confused one.

In the US, according to the constitution. But it is mostly not free speech in Germany, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksverhetzung

No it isn't. Hate speech proposes reducing freedoms for other people on the basis of their essential characteristics rather than their opinions.

Not just right-wingers.

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