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FWIW I've found that true on the left as well
by liminal 6y ago
FWIW I've found that true on the left as well
- Kaze404 6y agoCan you name any left-leaning communities that promote "unmoderated" free-speech? As someone who's in many left-leaning communities, this would be news to me and I'm genuinely curious to how it works.
- ativzzz 6y agoI think the biggest difference between far-left and far-right communities is that far-left communities don't pretend to have free speech. And because they don't care about free speech they are more willing to shut down content that the host platform may object to, like calls to violence. See places like /r/latestagecapitalism.
- supernovae 6y agoThe left understands the complexity of free speech, the right weaponizes free speech. Huge difference.
- TedDoesntTalk 6y agoI don’t know about “communities”, but there were definitely many people calling for violence at BLM protests and marches in 2020.
- thymorningafter 6y agoThe difference being that BLM movement actually has many decades (centuries?) of concrete evidence of racial injustice and oppression compared to the baseless claims of voter fraud and a supposed stolen election.
- pixl97 6y agoThere are a lot of people that are unwilling to give an abused minority even the slightest leeway, and instead while holding the majority position holding power, claim they are the ones that are abused.
- pixl97 6y agoYou cannot have both an open community on the internet and unmoderated content. The right says they do this, but it is a lie. Even cesspools like the chans have heavy moderation to keep them from turning into a porn distribution form.
- jandrese 6y ago/b/ is porn central. They do try to keep child porn off the site, but even that low bar is hard to achieve.
- liminal 6y agoCan't reply to Kaze404's reply to this, but just wanted to say that I didn't intend to compare Parler to any left-wing social network or group I'm aware of. Just saying that from my experience with the left, there are condoned views and straying outside the lines isn't healthy for group inclusion. I'm also explicitly not equivocating the validity of the views themselves.
- Kaze404 6y agoThanks for the clarification. I agree, that's a phenomenon I see often as well, and while I think that there are some indefensible positions even on the left, I think some of the communities I'm part of would benefit from giving the benefit of the doubt more often.