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> Ban things labeled "toxic", ban the boo-boos, keep everyone safe with happy feelings in this space only. But admittedly my thoughts are incomplete. I think y

• coldtea 6y ago
  >What they are missing is the knowledge of and empathy for people who are actually harmed by these behaviors. Don't worry, most people asking for such bans don't have any real empathy for people who are actually harmed by these behaviors either. And inversely, most people who are actually harmed, don't care for such bans, they prefer substantive and inherent (felt and voluntary) changes, not bans.
• denkmoon 6y ago
  Think of the children won't you!
• growlist 6y ago
  But then plenty of the same people that seek to police speech online and to claim the moral high ground are capable of and comfortable with quite horrible and unjustified forms of harassment, e.g. extreme levels of doxxing, getting people sacked for hurty tweets, even hounding people to suicide. Let's not pretend there aren't plenty of cynics that employ woke culture to sinister ends.