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It makes all the difference in the world who's making this argument. He relies heavily on the idea that there's some universal category of "assholes" that websi
by makomk 7y ago
It makes all the difference in the world who's making this argument. He relies heavily on the idea that there's some universal category of "assholes" that websites should ban, and that if any website doesn't it's their fault and everyone should pressure them to fall in line. There is no such universal category that everyone agrees on. So what he's really arguing is that people who he considers assholes should be banned by every decent website that wants to receive advertising money, and it's impossible to seperate that argument from his specific moral values and actions.
- braythwayt 7y agoIn my opinion, your comment is stronger if you simply state: [This argument] relies heavily on the idea that there's some universal category of "assholes" that websites should ban, and that if any website doesn't it's their fault and everyone should pressure them to fall in line. [However,] there is no such universal category that everyone agrees on. That is simple, direct, and leaves him out of it. And I believe it is better without dragging his character and motives into it.
- makomk 7y agoThat argument doesn't work. Obviously the assholes won't agree that they should be banned, and you can just argue - as he does in this post - that anyone who doesn't think the supposed assholes should be banned is doing so because they're one of them. Judging the merits of this really does mean thinking about the actual concrete values that he's fighting for.