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False speech is not protected by the Constitution, and TechDirt's false and malicious speech about Dr. Ayyadurai should receive no legal protection.
That said, the company does address "Malicious Speech" in its community guidelines, attempting to get users to "dismantle negative speech through argument rather than censorship".
We should look to the wisdom of Rabbi Israel Meir Kagan, a 19th- and early 20th-century teacher, scholar and ethicist in Eastern Europe, whose most famous work, "Guarding the Tongue," explicated Jewish laws and learning concerning speech, the power of words, and especially the danger of gossip and malicious speech.
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Security experts are working to determine the exact origin of this malicious hate speech.
It includes gratuitous internecine backbiting, malicious hurtful speech and the inability to discuss differences in a civil way.
We again already have a law, the same law used in the recent high profile Twitter cases, which criminalises "malicious, threatening or grossly offensive" speech sent through email or posted online.
On the one hand there were those (like Sue Blackmore, self-confessedly ignorant of the scientific issues) who argued that Watson had the right to speak his mind whether he was correct or not - that is, for absolute freedom of speech however unpleasant, malicious, hate-filled or untrue the content.
"Mapbox has a zero tolerance policy against hate speech and any malicious edits to our maps.
"Having people use their authentic names makes them more accountable, and also helps us root out accounts created for malicious purposes, like harassment, fraud, impersonation and hate speech.
(A Facebook spokesman told me by e-mail: "Having people use their real names on Facebook makes them more accountable, and also helps us root out accounts created for malicious purposes, like harassment, fraud, impersonation and hate speech.
Having people use their authentic names makes them more accountable, and also helps [Facebook] root out accounts created for malicious purposes, like harassment, fraud, impersonation, and hate speech.
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