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Voat just became a cesspool because it was all about the "free speech". So you had an influx of the worst of reddit + the sort of people who are attracted to fr
by intertextuality 7y ago
Voat just became a cesspool because it was all about the "free speech". So you had an influx of the worst of reddit + the sort of people who are attracted to free speech areas online.
It just died off since then, since 1. nobody really quits reddit, and 2. the aforementioned events made voat culture, well, not great.
- matz1 7y agoYou call it cesspool because you either don't like it or disagree with it. Its a matter of perspective. Do you think the group of people you called cesspool will just accept that ? In their perspective by banning them, they are the one being oppressed. Of course they are going to fight back and try to create/move to alternative platform.
- intertextuality 7y agohttps://voat.co/v/Voat/3178819 https://voat.co/v/Voat/3178819 > Gas the kikes Race War Now is not an illegal threat. The supreme court has ruled that a threat needs a place and a time to be considered actionable or illegal. example: We're gassing the kikes at the Freemont Synagogue on 5th avenue, Tuesday. This is the most upvoted comment. We can say things like "it's a matter of perspective", but sometimes things are simply objectively shit. edit, to those of you who think I'm exaggerating, here is one comment in that thread out of many: "Fucking faggots...meanwhile Antifa gets run of every liberal city in the country while the nigs murder us daily...and we aren't even allowed to talk about clownworld." Pretty much any place on the internet that promotes itself solely on being a "free speech zone/place" is trash. Theoretically they should be fine but in practice they just always attract assholes and people who want to say very edgy things. Someone should coin it, "the law of internet free speech zones" or something. It has nothing to do with agreeing or disagreeing. Proper places of discussion don't have comments like "gas the kikes isn't technically hate speech so we should be allowed to say it here". You can always go ahead and host such a place if you want, but I'll stick to HN, Tildes, and Reddit instead so I can have reasonable discussion.
- matz1 7y agoObviously for the people who posting it and maybe many more people, it is not shit. Well, its trash for you but treasure for others. To them you are the assholes for calling it trash or wanting to get rid of it. Its all have to do with agreeing and disagreeing. To them proper places of discussion is the place where you can have comments like that. Its all matter of prespective.
- sagichmal 7y agoWe do get to say that some perspectives are right and some are wrong. Humans are moral agents, we have that ability. And those are wrong.
- matz1 7y agoYes human are moral agents and at the same time every human are different. What one called "wrong" might not be wrong for other.
- freehunter 7y agoFor example, Ted Bundy thought that murdering people was not wrong. We need to respect his morals and allow him to murder freely, because every human has different morals and although the murder victim thinks it's "wrong", we need to respect the opinion of the murderer too.
- matz1 7y agoNo, depends on your morality. If you thought murder was not wrong than it make sense to respect and follow Ted Bundy but if you thought that murder is wrong, its more sense for you to do the opposite.
- sagichmal 7y agoI don't care about what murderers or white supremacists think. Their morality is wrong, and they don't deserve a seat at society's table.
- gnadx 7y ago> You call it cesspool because you either don't like it or disagree with it. This is a bogus argument and I wish people would stop making it.