why can't we have both freedom of speech and basic human decency; when did freedom of speech start meaning hate speech and hate speech only

why is it that much harder to find decent people on the internet

@andlabs Yo. Going OOC right now, but the "other side" is chill.
@StarLust hm? not sure what you mean
@andlabs Many of the so called hate speech/free speech GNU Social are chill. Not many go about calling folks names for their race. The real screaming matches come from flat vs. udders. tl;dr just because they allow everything doesn't mean everyone yells slurs at each other and sow discord.

@StarLust of course, and I'm not going to condemn anyone in particular, especially since the other other side has its own share of guilty seeds

it's just that in our situation, the wars between vocal minorities affect everyone :S

@StarLust I was confused by your thing about OOC for the record
@andlabs Check my profile page.