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> I find it fucking baffling that you chose to defend those people, the people saying stuff like that, at the cost of their victims.

Oh well, I find it weird that you're twisting my words so much, but I won't insult your intelligence because of it.

Anyways, I don't defend those people - I think they're morons, I would shame them, etc. (I would defend them in court, though, unless they actually (physically) harm anyone - because freedom of speech).

The problem is (1) banning/censorship is a slippery slope, and will inevitably results in censoring some inconvenient truth, and (2) it doesn't work, because the trolls can just make a new account. IMO, personal filters that each user can activate and tune to their desire (akin email spam filters) would work much better.



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