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Vicious media smear campaigns? Automated blcaklists as enemies of freedom? Come on. The gamergaters are making death and rape threats and publishing people's
by Frondo 12y ago
Vicious media smear campaigns? Automated blcaklists as enemies of freedom? Come on. The gamergaters are making death and rape threats and publishing people's home addresses, the targets of those threats are blocking them from view. There's no equivalence here.
As for the word salad about liberty and guns, it almost sounds like you're trolling.
- angersock 12y agoIt's pretty easy to figure out how a system for automatically and preemptively blacklisting people (even one that is opt-in!) can be abused. Creating and fielding such tools does not make you a good person, and it doesn't make you a friend of freedom of speech given how it is used and deployed. As for the rest, I got somewhat off in the weeds, sure.
- Frondo 12y agoWhen you're defending death and rape threats--and the accompanying publication of the threat targets' home addresses--under the banner of "free speech," it's time for you to take a good long look at yourself and your values.
- angersock 12y agoI am a free-speech absolutist. I value free speech, of any variety, for any reason, with any intent. That said, there is a very large problem maintaining this view in the era of mass point-to-point communication if one also (as I do!) admits the issues of emotional harm. The problem is not so much in the messages, but in the quantity and ubiquity. I've brought it up before, I'll bring it up again, I'll probably even write a blog post about it, but everybody is so hot-and-bothered about the current victim-of-the-month that they don't care about the underlying philosophical issues.
- Frondo 12y agoAnd again, this isn't about your right to make noise. Again, it's about everyone else's right to ignore you if they want. Free speech isn't compulsory listening.