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Re:It Turns Out You Can Bullshit a Bullshitter After All by cyberlab on Sunday March 07, 2021 @10:47AM (#26376753)
It seems that people mistakenly cry 'censorship!' when most of the time cancel culture is really plain moderation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moderation
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Re:It Turns Out You Can Bullshit a Bullshitter After All by throwaway210222 on Sunday March 07, 2021 @10:48AM (#26376765)
> most of the time cancel culture is really plain moderation

Most moderation ends with people losing their jobs? Really?

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Re:It Turns Out You Can Bullshit a Bullshitter After All by ryandrake on Sunday March 07, 2021 @12:13PM (#26377582)
That would make vigilante justice, lynch mobs, all the way up to genocide examples of extreme "moderation". How do you differentiate moderation that kills someone from moderation that silences someone, kicks them out of their community, and costs them their jobs? They differ only in degree.
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Re:It Turns Out You Can Bullshit a Bullshitter After All by meowface on Sunday March 07, 2021 @05:57PM (#26380610)
A free society necessarily must permit some degree of what could be considered vigilantism - even if the vigilantism is intended to restrict someone or something else's freedom in some way. I'd call this the "meta-paradox of tolerance".

The difference in degree you mention is the boundary between legally (and sometimes morally) acceptable and unacceptable forms of vigilantism.

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Re:It Turns Out You Can Bullshit a Bullshitter After All by varjag on Sunday March 07, 2021 @02:17PM (#26378809)
It's pretty easy actually, noone gets murdered or maimed.
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