Comment on please defederate from exploding-heads.com and rammy.site

wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And as 4chan taught us, ironic tongue-in-cheek bigotry leads to an environment where people engage in rational conversations about equitable and inclusive society.

  Wait no, it leads to a cesspool of racists encouraging each other to livestream their mass shooting of “inferior” races.

  You’re taking the bait of the “free marketplace of ideas”.

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  • poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Very well said. This is why I am also in favor of “defederating over political preference”.

    Tolerating intolerance leads to violence but deplatforming actually does work to reduce harm.

    We should defederate from hateful and abusive instances

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    • vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Being intolerant to intolerance also leads to violence. More often then you think.

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      • jbsegal@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Would you have examples of this? Thanks!

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  • wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Seems pretty free to me. For example assuming your take, it will continue to exist even if you avert your eyes.

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    • MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t think you understand my take, but yes, it will continue to exist if i simply avert my eyes, however their content will reach and radicalize fewer people if they are defederated, and that means fewer people in favor of suppressing and killing minorities.

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      • wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If you’re saying the members of exploding-heads are in favor of and encouraging killing minorities, then no, I don’t understand. And so far you’re the only one who jas suggested killinh minorities.

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      • ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        however their content will reach and radicalize fewer people if they are defederated

        The bullshit part of this purity ideology is where “people” are presumed to be innocent rubes who can’t think for themselves and who will be forever tainted if they are contaminated by even a drop of Wrongthink.

        I’m not interested in having my information environment manipulated by technocrats for “my own good.”

        And then there’s the other not-small issue: if “their” “content” is so good at “radicalizing” “people,” maybe you should be addressing the substance of the content instead of engaging in definitionally futile campaigns to conceal its existence.

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• Shikadi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They’re also not, look closer at the discussions

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