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Ultimately, there are always a few assholes that will ruin it for everybody else. This is why we can not have nice things. Every time there is a platform that
by jandrese 3y ago
Ultimately, there are always a few assholes that will ruin it for everybody else. This is why we can not have nice things.
Every time there is a platform that touts its love of freedom and hatred of censorship it is flooded with neo-nazis and pedophiles.
- ryandrake 3y agoIt’s not that the nazis are some outside group “invading” the platform—they are the existing, initial audience. Whenever someone decides they are tired of getting censored on Platform X and creates their own “Free speech alternative to Platform X”, who is the audience? Cast-offs from Platform X. In other words, everyone who got kicked off for being racist, sexist, homophonic nazis. These free speech alternatives will never have a wholesome membership list.
- mikrl 3y ago>These free speech alternatives will never have a wholesome membership list Indeed, I’ve noticed with ‘rights’, that the very people fighting for them are invariably going to be on the side of some repugnant individuals. After all, the boundary of your right to do/say X will never be touched by average and inoffensive people. They will not push the limits. The people that do push the limits will be pushed back on by society, and then they lawyer up and take the fight to the legal system, and ultimately a Supreme Court who judges that “yea/nay you have the right to do/say X, and here are the clear demarcations”