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> I think people need thicker skin What a ridiculous thing to say. Actually plenty of us (and I've also been on the internet for many decades now) would like t

> I think people need thicker skin What a ridiculous thing to say. Actually plenty of us (and I've also been on the internet for many decades now) would like to hop online to engage with some cool folks about [insert interesting topic here] without having utter garbage and dreck thrown up in our faces like racism, transphobia, misogyny, bigotry, etc., etc.

phpisthebest 4y ago
Well it is good thing for you all major platforms have the ablity to block, mute, or otherwise curate your experience, including sharing "block lists" and other innovations so your personal experience is what you make it to be I support giving people the power to create their own echo chambers and safe spaces, feel free to do so.. No one should be forced to communicate with anyone they do not want to, however you also should not be able to prevent me from communicating with others that I desire to >>What a ridiculous thing to say Not really, it is sad parents have stopped teaching "Sticks and Stones my break my bones but words will never harm me" We really have lost the cultural axiom "I may hate what you say, but I will defend your right to say it" haven't we.
- lijogdfljk 4y ago
  > Well it is good thing for you all major platforms have the ablity to block, mute, or otherwise curate your experience, including sharing "block lists" and other innovations so your personal experience is what you make it to be Why would i choose a platform where i have to moderate thousands of individuals? Ie what's the purpose in that lol? Where is this world where we went from having Forums of communities to global cesspools where we want to manage what sort of nonsense shows up on the feed? > We really have lost the cultural axiom "I may hate what you say, but I will defend your right to say it" haven't we. I didn't say this, so your two replies in one feels odd. However, no one is stopping you from saying it. Say it all you want. I'm advocating a smaller forum where i don't have to listen to you say things to me that i'm uninterested in. I'm not stopping you from being on the internet. From having electricity. Just like i'm fine with you yelling on the street corner. I'm moving to the other side of the street. And you object to that, for some odd reason. Because by me moving, it doesn't give you a voice? Edit: To sum it up, this isn't about safe spaces. This is about spam. There's only so much "Vaccines give you 5G!!!" i can put up with lol. Just like the guy on the street corner. Hard to have a conversation around that annoying screaming.
- yosame 4y ago
  > "Sticks and Stones my break my bones but words will never harm me" Emotions are real, and emotional pain is real. Of course words can hurt you, they evoke emotions.
  - phpisthebest 4y ago
    Emotions are real, but is it not the public responsibility to manage your emotions. Each person, solely, is responsible for their own emotions. If "emotional harm" becomes the basis for what speech is allowed and what is not then we cease to have a culture of free expression “It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what." -- Stephen Fry You can not have free expression if the only thing required to shut down that expression is to claim emotional harm. I did not respect that position when it was the Christian right claim harms if gays spoke nor do I today when the authoritarian left claims emotional harm over the wrong pronouns
    - lijogdfljk 4y ago
      > Emotions are real, but is it not the public responsibility to manage your emotions. Each person, solely, is responsible for their own emotions. If "emotional harm" becomes the basis for what speech is allowed and what is not then we cease to have a culture of free expression Yea, this is bunk. What do you think fuels things like mass hysteria? What do you think fuels illogical decisions made in mass? I'm not advocating for mass censorship, but lets not pretend humans are either logical or capable of handling their own emotions. They're terrible at it. Look at any collection of humans. You can't walk forward without stubbing your toe over examples. Daily commute traffic is full of humans who can't manage their own emotions. edit: Even police know that human memory can't be trusted. What do you think fuels decisions we make, if our memory is so mutable? Likewise, if it was just emotions up for discussion that would be one thing. But it's not, it's so much more. It's "facts". A mass information war is taking place. Standing on the sidelines saying again, people can handle it, has already been proven false. Repeatedly. People cannot nor will not handle it, at least without help. The more quickly we recognize how horrible humans are at handling emotions and information ingestion the better we can make reasonable decisions about how to aid humans in actually making progress.

phpisthebest 4y ago

Well it is good thing for you all major platforms have the ablity to block, mute, or otherwise curate your experience, including sharing "block lists" and other innovations so your personal experience is what you make it to be I support giving people the power to create their own echo chambers and safe spaces, feel free to do so.. No one should be forced to communicate with anyone they do not want to, however you also should not be able to prevent me from communicating with others that I desire to >>What a ridiculous thing to say Not really, it is sad parents have stopped teaching "Sticks and Stones my break my bones but words will never harm me" We really have lost the cultural axiom "I may hate what you say, but I will defend your right to say it" haven't we.

lijogdfljk 4y ago
> Well it is good thing for you all major platforms have the ablity to block, mute, or otherwise curate your experience, including sharing "block lists" and other innovations so your personal experience is what you make it to be Why would i choose a platform where i have to moderate thousands of individuals? Ie what's the purpose in that lol? Where is this world where we went from having Forums of communities to global cesspools where we want to manage what sort of nonsense shows up on the feed? > We really have lost the cultural axiom "I may hate what you say, but I will defend your right to say it" haven't we. I didn't say this, so your two replies in one feels odd. However, no one is stopping you from saying it. Say it all you want. I'm advocating a smaller forum where i don't have to listen to you say things to me that i'm uninterested in. I'm not stopping you from being on the internet. From having electricity. Just like i'm fine with you yelling on the street corner. I'm moving to the other side of the street. And you object to that, for some odd reason. Because by me moving, it doesn't give you a voice? Edit: To sum it up, this isn't about safe spaces. This is about spam. There's only so much "Vaccines give you 5G!!!" i can put up with lol. Just like the guy on the street corner. Hard to have a conversation around that annoying screaming.
yosame 4y ago
> "Sticks and Stones my break my bones but words will never harm me" Emotions are real, and emotional pain is real. Of course words can hurt you, they evoke emotions.
- phpisthebest 4y ago
  Emotions are real, but is it not the public responsibility to manage your emotions. Each person, solely, is responsible for their own emotions. If "emotional harm" becomes the basis for what speech is allowed and what is not then we cease to have a culture of free expression “It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what." -- Stephen Fry You can not have free expression if the only thing required to shut down that expression is to claim emotional harm. I did not respect that position when it was the Christian right claim harms if gays spoke nor do I today when the authoritarian left claims emotional harm over the wrong pronouns
  - lijogdfljk 4y ago
    > Emotions are real, but is it not the public responsibility to manage your emotions. Each person, solely, is responsible for their own emotions. If "emotional harm" becomes the basis for what speech is allowed and what is not then we cease to have a culture of free expression Yea, this is bunk. What do you think fuels things like mass hysteria? What do you think fuels illogical decisions made in mass? I'm not advocating for mass censorship, but lets not pretend humans are either logical or capable of handling their own emotions. They're terrible at it. Look at any collection of humans. You can't walk forward without stubbing your toe over examples. Daily commute traffic is full of humans who can't manage their own emotions. edit: Even police know that human memory can't be trusted. What do you think fuels decisions we make, if our memory is so mutable? Likewise, if it was just emotions up for discussion that would be one thing. But it's not, it's so much more. It's "facts". A mass information war is taking place. Standing on the sidelines saying again, people can handle it, has already been proven false. Repeatedly. People cannot nor will not handle it, at least without help. The more quickly we recognize how horrible humans are at handling emotions and information ingestion the better we can make reasonable decisions about how to aid humans in actually making progress.