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> The only people who want to remove polarity from online conversation are hardcore censorship maximalists This in itself is an absolute statement. I prefer to
by hliyan 3y ago
> The only people who want to remove polarity from online conversation are hardcore censorship maximalists
This in itself is an absolute statement. I prefer to see reduced polarity from online conversations (more similar to HN), and I'm not censorship maximalist (whatever that label means)
- 0xy 3y agoHow do you "reduce polarity" without censoring voices? If you do believe in 'just a little censorship', then absolutely you are a censorship maximalist. How else would you achieve your censorship goals? The censor class have repeatedly censored discussion in the name of correctness that were later proven to be either murky or outright false (see: lab leak theory censorship, mask effectiveness censorship, Hunter Biden laptop censorship etc). As history has repeatedly shown, censorship is principally used by those whose ideas cannot be backed up in public debate -- the opposing view must be forcefully crushed.
- barleyworth 3y agoNot everyone wants to go to a baseball game where 1% of the fans are constantly getting into screaming matches about the other team sucking. Similarly, I will politely nope out of an online community that won't stop clobbering me with Team Red vs Team Blue debates. Free speech is not the same as "I should be listened to in proportion to how much I talk".