Good point:
Respect among community members
Discrimination -- Do not discriminate against people based on age,
gender, sex, sexual orientation, disability, religion, ideology, ideas,
social class, nationality, race, intelligence, or any analogous grounds.
Profanity -- Do not curse or use hard language here. Social norms differ
from place to place; hard language can deter people from our community.
Incivility -- Do not insult others here. Disagree and challenge ideas
instead.
Does that go against free-speech? If it does, I'm fine with that. I
definitely don't mind giving so much voice to intolerant propaganda. I mean
What's happening in Croatia or Poland is not something I want to encourage in
the name of free speech.
It makes me think about that Voltaire quote. Wait a second:
if you want to quote Voltaire on free speech, here’s something that he did
write once, in his 1763 Treatise on Toleration: “The supposed right of
intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is
far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each
other for paragraphs.” That’s something probably everybody on the
Internet could stand to think about, ourselves included.if you want to quote
Voltaire on free speech, here’s something that he did write once, in his
1763 Treatise on Toleration: “The supposed right of intolerance is absurd
and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers
do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for
paragraphs.” That’s something probably everybody on the Internet could
stand to think about, ourselves included.
http://www.themarysue.com/voltaire-beatrice-evelyn-hall/
On the other hand, if it's not clearly defined, it's clearly a censorship
tool.
So, what about the actual text? How loosely defined is it, in practice?
