Comment on Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content
sc_griffith@awful.systems 1 year agoby causal link, I mean how does banning nazis cause support groups for non-offending pedophiles to get banned. like how does that actually happen
Sanyanov@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I see.
It’s not banning nazis causing banning non-offending pedophiles, it’s banning people considered dangerous causing both. Fedi is just one example where banning Nazis is not full stop. Other groups are banned too, sometimes without much consideration.
This goes as part of my argument on why we need spaces with completely free speech. We cannot expect instance admins or even platform owners to be completely objective in their estimations of right and wrong, and we can’t trust them to be unaffected by societal stereotypes.
Moreover, even in such an ideal scenario where they are fully objective, their userbase might think differently, forcing admins to take measures against all marginalized groups.
At that point, it seems to me like the only way out of this conundrum is having some platforms allowing everything - platforms, from which positive, but initially rejected ideas can spread.
sc_griffith@awful.systems 1 year ago
nobody but nazis wants to be on those lol. go post on gab or whatever if you want that. it’s free. you can do it. you just don’t actually want to
Sanyanov@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why would I want to post anything on Gab, a far-right platform?
I hoped we’ll keep on with sensible conversation.
Substack, on its part, is used by various authors and is absolutely not limited to Nazis.
sc_griffith@awful.systems 1 year ago
the site you are imagining, the supposed free speech site? it converges to gab. this dynamic is basic and I can’t take you seriously if you don’t get this.
what exactly do you think substack will consist of in two years if they don’t do a 180? the entire reason we’re having this conversation right now is that a bunch of substack writers said they would rather leave than hang out with nazis