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Re:Mastodon Hit 10M Users by krapp on Monday March 20, 2023 @08:54AM (#35230777)
>I had to leave an instance because the maintainer said pro-life views were forbidden. Didn't matter whether you expressed them or not - the owner had a policy against private opinions.

Reading your own comment history here, I see you self-identify as a "honkler", which is an explicitly neo-nazi, anti-woke political identity. It's not surprising you wouldn't get along on a pro-choice instance, or even be able to refrain from trolling it. I can imagine plenty of private opinions others have that you likely object to, and that you just as likely wouldn't tolerate on your own instance if you had one - which you're free to make, as well as find a community more tolerant to your beliefs.

And that's fine. Freedom of speech means you can have yours and I can have mine, and that good fences make good neighbors.

>And if you support the concept of free association, what do you do when it collides with civil rights law?

If this has to do with a baker and a cake I'm going to be very disappointed. Your lot really needs to find new material.

Re:Mastodon Hit 10M Users by realjhol on Monday March 20, 2023 @09:14AM (#35230999)
I'm not a neo-nazi. Or I wasn't when I was doing freaky things with my wife, who is black last night.

> It's not surprising you wouldn't get along on a pro-choice instance, or even be able to refrain from trolling it.

If I had spoken forbidden things, I would have been kicked out. I left voluntarily.

> If this has to do with a baker and a cake I'm going to be very disappointed. Your lot really needs to find new material.

No I don't think we do. That one will serve just fine.

Civil rights trumps freedom of association, and indeed all other rights.

Re:Mastodon Hit 10M Users by SketchySeaBeast on Monday March 20, 2023 @09:38AM (#35231309)
> Civil rights trumps freedom of association, and indeed all other rights.

Wait, I can't ask you to leave my property because I don't like what you're saying? Also, freedom of association is explicitly a civil right.

Re:Mastodon Hit 10M Users by konart on Monday March 20, 2023 @10:49AM (#35232312)
>I see you self-identify as a "honkler", which is an explicitly neo-nazi

As a Russian who is lost in modern english langauge: does this "honkler" thing has anything to do with https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk? Also a golang fediverse project.

Re:Mastodon Hit 10M Users by krapp on Monday March 20, 2023 @11:33AM (#35233079)
Re:Mastodon Hit 10M Users by dmatech on Monday March 20, 2023 @01:09PM (#35234856)
Neither RW nor Wikipedia are reliable sources for what is alt-right, neo-Nazi, or any other contentious term. The terms themselves are largely a matter of opinion, and the sources used to make these determinations don't even pretend to be objective.