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Young says: > I suspect it’s because it often publishes sceptical pieces about the five sacred nostrums you’re not allowed to dissent from: the view that sex,

Young says: > I suspect it’s because it often publishes sceptical pieces about the five sacred nostrums you’re not allowed to dissent from: the view that sex, like gender, is a social construct and therefore not binary and immutable; that the lockdown policy and associated Covid restrictions were a prudent response to the pandemic; the mRNA vaccines are safe and efficacious; we’re in the midst of a ‘climate emergency’ and the only solution is to achieve ‘net zero’ by 2050 (preferably earlier); and the West should continue to supply arms and aid to Ukraine. How did these five things end up being part of the same tribe? How is it that, like, "don't take the Moderna vaccine" is on the same page as "stop helping Ukraine?"

genewitch 4y ago
they all involve fairly large groups of people lambasting and berating people who don't subscribe to the same journals et ideas as one or more of them. To be a bit hyperbolic, it's thought-crime - controlling narrative and therefore policies and ideas. I understand that there's roughly countably infinite information available from sources online and offline. Open discussion should be encouraged, and bad actors should be warned, given a timeout, or perma-banned, depending on the severity and incident count. It is possible that a lot of people are unable to cope with any exposure to dissent or hate (or "climate denial" or...) mastodon/GNU Social et al have a lot of really disturbing imagery and outright harmful or hateful speech - i can only assume that people are giggling behind their screens and servers. I just maintain both an individual and domain blacklist, my fediverse server just won't accept connections from the domains, and i won't ever see replies/posts from individual blocks. If i wanted to allow other people on to my fediverse instance, you bet i'd really ratchet down on the censorship, to ensure that new users aren't bombarded with the sorts of things discussed in both of the HN threads. The timeline does move quickly, though, and if i got booted off my hosting provider over something that appeared on one of my subdomains related to fediverse, i'd be fairly upset, too.

genewitch 4y ago

they all involve fairly large groups of people lambasting and berating people who don't subscribe to the same journals et ideas as one or more of them. To be a bit hyperbolic, it's thought-crime - controlling narrative and therefore policies and ideas. I understand that there's roughly countably infinite information available from sources online and offline. Open discussion should be encouraged, and bad actors should be warned, given a timeout, or perma-banned, depending on the severity and incident count. It is possible that a lot of people are unable to cope with any exposure to dissent or hate (or "climate denial" or...) mastodon/GNU Social et al have a lot of really disturbing imagery and outright harmful or hateful speech - i can only assume that people are giggling behind their screens and servers. I just maintain both an individual and domain blacklist, my fediverse server just won't accept connections from the domains, and i won't ever see replies/posts from individual blocks. If i wanted to allow other people on to my fediverse instance, you bet i'd really ratchet down on the censorship, to ensure that new users aren't bombarded with the sorts of things discussed in both of the HN threads. The timeline does move quickly, though, and if i got booted off my hosting provider over something that appeared on one of my subdomains related to fediverse, i'd be fairly upset, too.