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olivermarks
Free speech defines an open society. This article is riddled with denigrations and insults for anyone not parroting the status quo. You have to debate openly, not suppress speech for a society to be open.
pwinnski
Free speech is good, except when someone uses it to insult neo-Nazis?

In theory, free speech is good. On a level playing field of ideas, neo-Nazi nonsense is revealed to be just that: nonsense. This article is about trickery and deception is used to avoid a level playing field.

olivermarks
Yes, but all sides of the political spectrum do this and so do nation states, at an industrial scale...
smt88
This has nothing to do with free speech because Disqus is neither a public forum nor a governmental entity.
fdsafaew
> You have to debate openly, not suppress speech

What do you call overloading a comment section with sockpuppet accounts?

jacob019
Disqus has found it profitable to ignore hate speech, so they ignore hate speech.