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If someone is saying something you don't like on those platforms, just unfollow them / mute them / block them. Nothing is said on those platforms, by the way, t
by chrisco255 3y ago
If someone is saying something you don't like on those platforms, just unfollow them / mute them / block them. Nothing is said on those platforms, by the way, that hasn't been said a thousand different times in a thousand different forums, chat rooms, or blogs that preceded them. But I digress, I both support the liberty of people to speak freely on the internet and wish the centralized apps would die off.
- pixl97 3y agoAs a hyperbolic example, I've created a support group called "the summary execution of people with the username chrisco255 group", you're free to block the group and ignore us, but all 255,000 of us are very angry people looking for vengeance...
- chrisco255 3y agoCool, I carry, so make my day. By the way, threats to life, liberty, and property have always been illegal in this country. But no, I'm definitely not afraid or worried about some idle threats from basement dwelling neckbeards.
- earth-adventure 3y agoYou completely missed his point.
- chrisco255 3y agoNo, I didn't. He made a strawman about a practice that is currently illegal and has been illegal for hundreds of years of common law. Literally threatening someone's life with summary execution is illegal whether by one person or 255K. The 255K scenario is meant to be a hyperbolic example, but the truth is that such threats do exist for people on the internet and more often than not those types of threats come implicitly from sovereign powers who have access to such numbers of henchmen. How much more important is it then, to protect free speech on the internet, when so much power and threats are wielded in far more subtle and insidious ways?