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This is morally defensible, but from a business point of view, the likes of Twitter need to be seen doing something about "hate speech".

Specifically this means suppressing the alt-right, who are the most problematic causes of bad PR. Other groups - Burmese Islamophobes, for example - might get silenced too, but out of a desire to have consistent rules rather than a clear business need or a moral imperative to prevent genocide in Myanmar.



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