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[–]Alienhunter 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Headline is somewhat misleading. An event planning social media site has deleted a number of planned events that involve screening of these movies citing their own hate speech policies. Though none of these events have actually been cancelled and the movie has not been banned.

This is more an example of over bias in online moderation.

[–]Canbot 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think your framing is far more misleading. If they could have banned the film they would, they simply don't have that power. And they used the hate speech excuse to censor speech simply because they didn't agree with it politically.

The title perfectly conveys that. Your framing implies that the excuse is valid if a bit tough, and there was no real harm. Both claims are wrong and entirely biased

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Hardly. I take offense to the implication I'm implying the excuse is valid. No excuse has been given as such. This event platform has chosen to delist a number of these screenings with no sufficient explanation which is clearly a heavy handed case of moderation censorship.

However it is important to not fall into semantic traps and to be clear and concise in the use of language. The movie has not been banned and the events are going to continue as planned. This website has chosen to essentially delist the events for no stated reason beyond a simple form letter. If you claim the film has been banned you open yourself up to being disregarded outright as it clearly has not been banned.

[–]ID10T 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Hard disagree. Cancelling all events on their platform is a ban on their platform. You have no point in splitting hairs here. Just useless pedantry.

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's been banned off their site, which was the primary means of getting the word out about the screening.

You think they don't know what they're doing? Of course they do. This movie is extremely damaging to their cause; naturally they're going to use everything they can to stop people from seeing it. All it does is let them speak in their own words. And that's the worst thing you can do to them.