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Re:Trump's new platform and the Affero General Public Licens... by kkjjkgjjgg on Friday October 22, 2021 @04:17PM (#28962193)
What is "the community's right to shut somebody up"? If a country elects a dictator, it is fine if that dictator then shuts people up?

Mastodon (afaik) already has the feature that communities can decide what outside content can enter their servers. What is the point on making it impossible for others to use the software at all? It doesn't server the purpose of protecting that community from nasty speech, because that is already accomplished by not communicating with the evil servers.

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Re:Trump's new platform and the Affero General Public Licens... by oblio on Friday October 22, 2021 @04:23PM (#28962271)
If the dictator is democratically elected, well, kind of yes. Plus you've already lost.

The real protection against abuse by the majority is generally through constitutions. Plus having a well educated populace.

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