Re:Online abuse: banning anonymous social media accounts is ...
by lexapro on Thursday October 21, 2021 @11:14AM
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>4chan is sharp and smart.
Well, it can be. But the main boards usually aren't. A lot of smart people have left the platform. What's left is mostly "bad" people who have nowhere else to go: nazis, child molesters, edgy teenagers and so on.
Re:Online abuse: banning anonymous social media accounts is ...
by swayvil on Thursday October 21, 2021 @12:18PM
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Sounds like you got offended there. It's a short hop with eyes-closed from "offended" to "moral condemnation".
Our greatest artists and thinkers have been condemned throughout history. Censored too. Consider that.
Re:Online abuse: banning anonymous social media accounts is ...
by lexapro on Friday October 22, 2021 @07:00AM
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Offended no, it's hard to take it that serious. But yes, I do disagree with blatant racism and child sexual abuse. And I don't think it's particularly witty or edgy even.
>Our greatest artists and thinkers have been condemned throughout history.
Our greatest artists and thinkers were typically not nazis or child molesters.
Look at instances where the conversation is forced to respect conventional values.
It's death. Conformity and moronic mob-politics becomes the norm. So norm that you forget that there was anything better. (Reddit and Facebook are 2 notorious cases of this.)
4chan is sharp and smart. And infantile and vile. And sometimes it's hard to tell the difference. Which is only proper.