"there are people I disagree with also using this space"
Claiming that is what people mean when they claim something is toxic is just as lazy, if not more so. And you’re basically saying that it’s on minority and underrepresented groups to be the one to engage, rather than those that are antagonizing them.
Alex Jones is an even more egregious case because he’s gotten in trouble not just because he “said things people disagree with”, but because he sent a harassment mob against the parents of children murdered at Sandy Hook, claiming it was a “false flag operation.” Several of them now are not able to visit the graves of their children, the harassment is that bad.
I’m sorry, but I just do not see this as anywhere near the “slippery slope” you’re complaining it is.
I understand the bad things Jones does, like the doxxing and maybe that is sufficient enough to ban him (and reasonable in that case), but he's just an extreme example for the slippery slope for speech and censorship that IS already here (and which takes almost no imagination to predict where it will ultimately go) https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1031544806823141376
Additionally, I would rather US companies try to favor behavior honoring the Constitution generally, even though they don't have to.
Claiming that is what people mean when they claim something is toxic is just as lazy, if not more so. And you’re basically saying that it’s on minority and underrepresented groups to be the one to engage, rather than those that are antagonizing them.
Alex Jones is an even more egregious case because he’s gotten in trouble not just because he “said things people disagree with”, but because he sent a harassment mob against the parents of children murdered at Sandy Hook, claiming it was a “false flag operation.” Several of them now are not able to visit the graves of their children, the harassment is that bad.
I’m sorry, but I just do not see this as anywhere near the “slippery slope” you’re complaining it is.