Trump's new platform and the Affero General Public License of Mastodon

Re:Trump's new platform and the Affero General Public Licens... by AnthonyMouse on Friday October 22, 2021 @04:56PM (#28962628)

This is a classic motte and bailey. The motte is that "intolerance" only means the denunciation of rational argument and calls to violence. The bailey is that this justifies blocking the entire opposition because they are declared to be violent criminals who have abandoned rational argument, or expanding of the definition of "violence" to mean (warning: irony) any rational debate about sacred cows.

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Re:Trump's new platform and the Affero General Public Licens... by krapp on Friday October 22, 2021 @05:05PM (#28962716)

>The bailey is that this justifies blocking the entire opposition because they are declared to be violent criminals who have abandoned rational argument, or expansions of the definition of "violence" to mean (warning: irony) any rational debate about sacred cows.

I never made or implied any such claim, you're not arguing in good faith here.

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Re:Trump's new platform and the Affero General Public Licens... by AnthonyMouse on Sunday October 24, 2021 @07:26PM (#28982874)

Then your response was a non-sequitur because the context here is that entire platforms are being blocked and the "paradox of tolerance" was put up as a justification.

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Re:Trump's new platform and the Affero General Public Licens... by krapp on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @07:27PM (#29007730)

My response was not a non-sequitur.

You claimed the paradox of tolerance allowed no principled way to draw the line between what should and shouldn't be censored, I quoted the principle as stated verbatim. And rather than make an argument against the paradox of tolerance as written, you decided to switch to ad hominem.

If you want to actually convince anyone of anything, you're going to need to argue against what people actually say and believe, rather than strawmen.

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