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Wow, what a horrible, restraining overreach.
I am shedding tears for the 1.2% engagement loss this would cost Reddit next quarter. Imagine what they have to pay devs for filtering abusive videos!
(I hate to sound so salty, but its mind boggling that they would fight this so vehemently, instead of just... filtering abusive content? Which they already do for anything that actually costs them any profit).
I'm a little surprised to hear people so willing to let the government of Ireland determine who they are allowed to hate and for what reasons.
You are making such a useless point that requires minimal effort or thought. It would be better if you actually shared a tangible concern rather than providing a strawman argument meant to cause an irrational fear in people reading your comment.
For example, you could have shared which group of people you want to be a protected class and is not by Irish law; or which group of people is currently a protected class by Irish law and should not be. At least, then, you would have brought up a real concern about how the Irish government is determining hate speech; because right now, all you are doing is fear mongering.
Because at this point, I trust the Irish government more than Reddit to make proper moderation judgements.
It's not a high bar, and not ideal... but I feel social media's raging internal issues have overshadowed the fear of governments worming their way inside, at least in my eyes.