Do you have a source for that claim?
I think 4chan is a cesspool, but I don't think it should be banned. Young kids should be supervised by their parents, rather than turning the whole web into a child-friendly zone. There are without a doubt many websites that are much worse for children.
The way to fix this isnt with silencing, its by exact opposite -promoting controvercy and rewarding discussion around it while punishing low effort posts and replies.
Without criticism and challenge by other ideological belief systems, mainstream liberal ideology can easily fall into things like Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union. That was a politically enforced non-belief in genetics in plants. Lysenko believed for example that plants could change species by being exposed to cold temperatures. Stalin was a fan, so everyone that criticized Lysenko was persecuted until finally the Soviets came to their senses after years of poor agricultural performance and failed experiments. There are a lot of these types of ideologically unquestionable beliefs in the west. That you probably already know what they are shows how deep and obvious the defects are.
That’s a very _ideological_ definition of ideology.
Ideology is any system of ideas or beliefs, period. That goes for the good ones as well as the bad.
Your description is just defining “someone else’s ideology”. Obviously you wouldn’t defend your own ideology with insults, censorship and threats.
The right way is to teach about philosophy (and the many different philosophies) and the merits in using argumentation based on reasoning and understanding of the topic, as well as becoming aware of fallacies and bad faith discussion.
This is a distorted and negative interpretation of the word "ideology". Please try not to misuse the word pejoratively, as anti-idealism, being itself an ideology, places you in a somewhat paradoxical stance. :)
Many ideologies are positive, humanistic and rest on rational well argued and widely accepted values.
Here is a fairly neutral explanation of the word "ideology" with some examples to help you appreciate its scope [1].
[1] https://examples.yourdictionary.com/ideology-examples.html
Why should constitution bend to your, clearly, changeable feelings?
I don't love 4chan, but I dislike someone's sensibilities governing my life more.
They put up fact-checks under a post sometimes, but what those fact-checks mean for the visibility of a post is left to your imagination. If a post or link is outright censored, you don't find out about it until you try to post it. As their censorship intruded even into so-called private messages on those platforms, even in a 1-to-1 conversation, sending something prohibited doesn't show any kind of "Prohibited content censored" message to the recipient (even non-spam).
They'd much rather you don't know they're censoring anything.
Americans say sexually explicit content can negatively influence people, but don't worry so much about violent content.
Personally, I think both are partially right. We are what we eat. No human mind is inviolable, the information we consume effects who and what we are. Whether any particular influence is positive or negative is mostly a matter of subjective values.
(Though, the really weird thing is how there is porn about porn being harmful? bizarre.)
(That being said, I'm all for private platforms tending to ban it, at least provided that the reason they can do so isn't just due to monopoly stuff. So if twitter banned it, that would be good imo.)
Personally, I call that a good thing, even if yes, porn can be very unhealthy for both creators and consumers.
[0] https://slate.com/culture/2006/10/proof-that-internet-porn-p...
I'm not joking
Hah, this seems to be coming back in recent times, with states trying impose bans or paywalls on porn or Chicago making their officials look like clowns by linking GTAV to increased carjackings that happened long after the games release.
Your side, your feelings, your way of thinking.