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The author raises Donald Trump as an example, I'll counter with Wil Wheaton's experience on Mastodon[1]. It's great that there are moderation teams that will a
by bjt2n3904 6y ago
The author raises Donald Trump as an example, I'll counter with Wil Wheaton's experience on Mastodon[1].
It's great that there are moderation teams that will accept inflammatory and controversial characters. But if the userbase doesn't believe in freedom of speech, it doesn't really matter if the platform does.
1 - http://wilwheaton.net/2018/08/the-world-is-a-terrible-place-right-now-and-thats-largely-because-it-is-what-we-make-it/ http://wilwheaton.net/2018/08/the-world-is-a-terrible-place-...
- tomtomtom777 6y agoIn the Fediverse, it would make sense to use government servers whose moderation rules are overseen by the legislative branch.
- honest_guy 6y agoWil had the ability to block people, mute people, mute words, mute regex, mute entire instances... If he didn't agree with the moderation of the instance he chose, he was free to find another or even start his own. Nothing about how the userbase acted restricted his ability to use the platform, publish content or engage with content in any way. He just got annoyed by it, then got banned by an instance admin.