Re:Some Facebook Employees Unite to Challenge Its ‘Intoleran...
by dang on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @01:01AM
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It's not; it's about something currently happening at Facebook.
I admit that the line is hard to draw and the root comment there had a foot on both sides of it. But we've learned that ideologically inflammatory threads do much better when they stay grounded in the specifics of the current story. If we end up with a bunch of angry flamewars burning in separate places about veganism, Stalinism, etc., all at the same time, that's one of the worst-case scenarios for this forum.
I admit that the line is hard to draw and the root comment there had a foot on both sides of it. But we've learned that ideologically inflammatory threads do much better when they stay grounded in the specifics of the current story. If we end up with a bunch of angry flamewars burning in separate places about veganism, Stalinism, etc., all at the same time, that's one of the worst-case scenarios for this forum.