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You are correct - as a person who cares deeply about free speech, I certainly place less value on basic decency. To my mind, the correct response to violations
by FeepingCreature 5y ago
You are correct - as a person who cares deeply about free speech, I certainly place less value on basic decency.
To my mind, the correct response to violations of decency is giving people strong tools to screen and filter out content they don't like. The wrong response is centralized enforcement. Inasmuch as centralized enforcement would be better at enforcing "basic decency", I will confirm that I place its priority at a lower level than avoiding centralized enforcement.
I hold this view because in my opinion, I am far more likely to be harmed by attempts to enforce some unilateral definition of "basic decency" than the very indecency they aim to prevent. (I believe this is called the "paradox of tolerance", though few know it in that formulation.)
- wizzwizz4 5y agoThen you'll like the Fediverse, then. (Though the tools aren't particularly good, yet… perhaps you could help?)
- FeepingCreature 5y agoNot sure - I think federation and defederation is the wrong approach. I think a network should decouple routing and moderation, and make both independently subscribable.
- wizzwizz4 5y agoIt does, for the most part! Defederation is the last resort, when you've got an instance that nobody wants to deal with (e.g. the people there are tracking down and harassing your users, and you want them to “win” and therefore stop). User-level moderation tools are much more common, though they're currently a bit lacking.