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> Those are alternative platforms to twitter in the same way that a strip club is an alternative entertainment venue to your local movie theater. I'm assuming
by yeetawayhn 6y ago
> Those are alternative platforms to twitter in the same way that a strip club is an alternative entertainment venue to your local movie theater.
I'm assuming this comparison is supposed to have some rhetorical value to it? Otherwise it just comes off as puritan gatekeeping.
- mullingitover 6y agoThose are alternative platforms to twitter in the same way that an underground dogfighting ring is an alternative entertainment venue to your local boxing league. Those are alternative platforms to twitter in the same way that a "massage parlor" (scare quotes intentional) is an alternative entertainment venue to your local strip club. Better?
- yeetawayhn 6y agoNo, because you keep comparing nonquestionable to nonquestionable or questionable to questionable. Your point really isn't coming across well here.
- mullingitover 6y agoNon-questionable? I would put 'individual is a regular poster on 8chan, a site which regularly has child pornography posted' and 'individual is a regular attendee of underground dogfights' in basically the same category. That's just me, I guess.
- yeetawayhn 6y agoYes, non-questionable. You tried to compare massage parlors with strip clubs when neither are questionable. On the other hand, both underground dogfights and boxing matches are both questionable. Your position is all over the place. It's sad, really.
- r00fus 6y agoIt's coming across fine to me - the "alt" versions are questionable.
- yeetawayhn 6y agoWhat makes boxing matches questionable compared to underground dogfights?
- pwinnski 6y agoYou seem to be missing the entire point. Questionable alternatives to twitter are "alternatives" only in the sense that questionable alternative to mainstream entertainment options are "alternatives." The entire point is that boxing matches are not questionable, while underground dogfights are illegal and not really therefore a reasonable alternative.
- yeetawayhn 6y agoYet boxing matches are questionable. Underground dogfights being illegal is a tangential point, based only in legal semantics.
- mullingitover 6y agoNothing, boxing matches are an above-board activity, as opposed to dogfighting, that's my point. Above-board web sites with reasonable moderation standards are doing fine, and always have been.
- yeetawayhn 6y agoThat's just circular reasoning. You claim they're "above board" because they are not questionable, but the only metric by which you deem them not questionable is that they are "above board". This discussion is going nowhere as long as you don't understand that.