# Linking to hate speech, the Journey Continues **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 28, 2025, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-hate-speech-the-journey-continues/1013506 "2025-01-28T02:17:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-hate-speech-the-journey-continues/1013506/5 "2025-01-28T16:51:21Z")
Linking directly to a site with hate speech should be treated like linking directly to any other obscene content; not a big deal, break the link, remind them not to do that, only if they make it a habit should it be considered actionable. A broken link to such a site to discuss it isn’t a bad thing. For a hypothetical, let’s say a major news site publishes an op-ed denouncing non-hetero relationships and includes hateful stereotypes and slurs, in what seems like an attempt to normalize such opinion and language in advance of an effort to restrict same-sex marriage rights in the US. That’s worthy of discussion and including a (broken) link to the article in question is very helpful if not essential for the discussion. But it’s another thing entirely to link to such a discussion and to **endorse** its content in any way. I’d suggest that doing so should be treated the same as if someone wrote those same slurs and hate directly into a post, and moderated accordingly. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-hate-speech-the-journey-continues/1013506)._