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If your village is the only one where witches don't get burned, you'll end up with all the witches from the land. If your platform is the only one without any
by nikanj 6y ago
If your village is the only one where witches don't get burned, you'll end up with all the witches from the land.
If your platform is the only one without any censorship, you'll end up with all the hardcore antisemitists and similar crazies.
- draugadrotten 6y agoLike with parler, that is convenient for FBI, NSA, FSB and whoever else who needs to track the crazies. Is that a bad company fallacy? You would never believe what happens next...
- nindalf 6y agoNot just the three letter agency. Chances are, if it's a new company trying to create an MVP of a social network, they'll probably make mistakes like Parler did with security. Then the whole world can read the entire database and every piece of content ever uploaded, not just law enforcement.
- kthejoker2 6y agoEven though I agree with your second sentence, that 1st one has to be the front runner for Worst Possible Choice of Metaphor in a Particular Argument. Invoking memories of literal witch hunts like Salem and the Spanish Inquisition as examples of effective community policing is ... something else.
- nickthemagicman 6y agoYou'll also get the people with original ideas and the people who want to change society. The people who thought marijuana should be legal who were considered druggies, the people who thought gays should be allowed to be married despite society considering it an abomination at the time. The underground railroad type places that society doesn't condone. In order to break dysfunctional social customs you have to be able to talk about them freely without censorship or social cooling. And by throwing free speech forums away you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater. So you're half right.