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I think it is telling you specifically mention "Islamic terrorist" twice in your brief comment. It would seem you are OK with censoring that (I agree), but given your very narrow focus, seems you are not OK with banning "terrorist", which is revealing.

Since you took the extra effort to exactly specify what exactly should be censored, under your definition, would you be OK with Anders Breivik's manifesto?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Behring_Breivik

It is also the problem -- when people want to use censorship as a tool to selectively ban some bad but leave other bad alone. Who decides which bad is bad, and which bad we should conveniently ignore?




> given your very narrow focus

That's an incorrect assumption on your part. As i said originally:

>> There are situations where I’m ok with censorship. One of them is ...




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