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Re:Censoring Social Media by nathanaldensr on Sunday May 04, 2025 @10:27PM (#43891455)
I stopped reading this post once it veered into the typical "leftist ideas are good and rightist ideas are dangerous" ideological assumption. This is why censorship is bad and the post itself proves it. Everyone wants to censor any ideas they don't like and there is never complete agreement on what ideas are universally bad. "Yeah, but my echo chamber says..." is not an argument.
Re:Censoring Social Media by OneDeuxTriSeiGo on Sunday May 04, 2025 @10:41PM (#43891512)
Where did it say that? The most they said was the following and that says nothing about "left vs right" beyond basic "nazis are bad" and "racism is bad".

> And specifically, history teaches us that certain narratives are dangerous to civic sanity and human life: Naziism, revanchism, hypernationalism, fomenting ethnic hatred, and so on.

Otherwise they only really get into the politics side of things in the "Rule of Law" section and my read on that was "this is my opinion and the opinion of my community". That entire section was about how politics varies greatly by region and doesn't (at least to me) suggest that certain ideas are inherently dangerous by their binary "left-right" political affiliation.

Re:Censoring Social Media by dredmorbius on Monday May 05, 2025 @01:22AM (#43892133)
OTOH, it's interesting to see that some choose to interpret this as "the typical 'leftist ideas are good and rightist ideas are dangerous'".
Re:Censoring Social Media by vorpalhex on Monday May 05, 2025 @10:38AM (#43895629)
Are Nazis (a defunct German political movement) bad or are _anyone and everyone we call Nazis_ (ranging from Trump, to the state of Israel) bad?

As far as I know, the dead Germans didn't have much of an internet presence.

And what counts as racism? Are we talking Call-of-duty lobby or "microaggressions" and true-but-unsavory comments on crime?

I'd much rather just let the actual racists speak and out themselves as racists than any of the other alternatives. We have universities banning the word "brownbag" for racism - I don't trust anyone to play the censor no matter how virtuous their claim.

Re:Censoring Social Media by incomingpain on Monday May 05, 2025 @07:45AM (#43893990)
I did the same.

Something I've noticed over the years.

Digg: We stand for freedom of speech.

Digg establishes censorship and everyone leaves for reddit.

Reddit: We stand for free speech.

Reddit establishes censorship and everyone leaves for X, bluesky, mastodon.

X, bluesky, and mastodon: We stand for free speech.

X, bluesky, and mastodon establishes censorship and everyone leaves.

Dead internet theory: We stand for robots talking to each other while everyone moves to censorship free avenues.