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There are a lot of users that have complained about the s-banning on this site. While the moderation team of this site seems to be well-intentioned, it does ine
by DevOps72 1y ago
There are a lot of users that have complained about the s-banning on this site. While the moderation team of this site seems to be well-intentioned, it does inevitably lead to a very strong slant. S-banning users doesn't make them or their viewpoints go away. They just end up happening elsewhere.
Because those conversations do end up happening elsewhere, this site is famous for leaving readers with a strongly false impression of what viewpoints are actually popular among whatever you would want to call this Silicon Valley hacker / VC scene space.
The highly insidious thing about censorship is not only you don't know what you're not seeing but you don't know you're not seeing it -- you don't know what's missing.
- mrguyorama 1y ago>Because those conversations do end up happening elsewhere All research shows the opposite in fact. Adding friction to something causes a chilling effect in nearly any and all examples we have ever paid attention to. When you remove easy access to guns, people kill themselves less despite there being other easy ways to do so. When reddit banned a bunch of toxic communities, the entire site had less toxicity, even on subreddits that were unrelated to the toxic communities Friction works. It works insanely effectively too.