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    1 year ago

    You can advocate for free speech while downvoting the content of the speech. That’s the whole principle of free speech. It’s not just for the content we upvote; it’s specifically for the content we downvote.

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        1 year ago

        You’re talking about old-school reddiquette, which even reddit itself forgot eons ago: upvote well thought-out comments even if you disagree with them. And I actually do that to a degree, even if I dislike the author’s point. But if I think the comment is wrong in some way then I downvote it. That’s not to say I want the author silenced, just that the down button is there to be used sometimes.