Comment on Meta deletes Al Jazeera presenter’s profile after show criticising Israel

• CatWhoMustNotBeNamed@geddit.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Let the removeds bring their ideas into the light, so we know who they are and what they think.

  Suppression is just a bad idea, and your naivete is terrifying.

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• jet@hackertalks.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The problem with deplatforming people is eventually your group is going to be the out group, and it’s going to get deplatformed. Either we have freedom of expression for everybody or for nobody.

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  • Gsus4@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s perfectly fine to deplatform selectively anyone who is trying to threaten, intimidate, harass others. You don’t automatically get freedom of speech if you don’t follow society’s rules of coexistence between groups.

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    • jet@hackertalks.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Lemmy and distributed systems like it are designed to prevent any one group to get deplatformed.

      If a group of people are breaking laws, judges should sanction them. It shouldn’t be up to corporations to remove their voice. If any one group can remove the voice of another group, no matter how righteously, without legal due process then we are just having a popularity contest.

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• Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If we deplatform whole communities, they will meet in the dark and we have no way to see who is a shady mf

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  • aidan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So should reddit have left subreddit a like r/The_Donald up?

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    • Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      As long as nothing illegal was written there, in my opinion, yes. But something against echo chambers should be done, I agree. But again, with banning them you encourage more echo chambers since there is no one thinking different than them in does dark not regulated chambers where they will flee to and find each other again. Hope that makes sense for you, generally problems don’t disappear by hiding symptoms, they just get out of sight anf come back worse than they where. I think, a better choice would be to invest in more (and better) education instead of ways to censor people.

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      • aidan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I agree completely, I was just wondering if you applied it to situations like that

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  • Gsus4@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It was ok when neonazis had no platform to organise in and were marginalized so they didn’t have a way to consolidate into a platform that makes them feel emboldened enough to do anything because they were so fragmented. It was a good way to keep them under control without harsher measures.

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