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You know, people used to be ok with having a bit of fun on the internet. Not everything needed to be censored or sanitized, even if it meant you saw a naughty o

• techdragon 4y ago
  More people… more assholes. It’s an unfortunate situation that we can’t all just be better people on all fronts, better at not abusing systems, better at taking a joke, better at accepting the failures of others, better at holding ourselves to account… But at the end of the day, prevention beats cure and it’s not too hard to do, even if it does take a little bit of the spontaneity out of things.
• rpastuszak 4y ago
  > You know, people used to be ok with having a bit of fun on the internet They still do, but their definition of fun is different than an equivalent of doodling a swastika on a bar urinal. I’ll tell the manager to stop cleaning those. Perhaps spend a moment asking yourself next time what’s so fun here, and at whose expense. Vulgarity is fine, xenophobia isn’t.
• 22c 4y ago
  I think you misremember the internet. There were and are still very few places on the internet (outside of hosting your own platform) where you can post whatever you want without recourse. No woodworking forum would allow a thread of "black man assaulting asians on the subway". You wouldn't see "jews stealing money" in comp.lang.perl. Removing a submission from your own website that goes against the spirit of the site is not censorship any more than cleaning swastika graffiti off your front door is censorship.
• dylan604 4y ago
  I think it's less about the intent of people having fun, but other people's reception of that fun.