Lately I see a lot of calls do have specific instances defederated for a particular subset of reasons:
- Don’t like their content
- Dont like their political leaning
- Dont like their free speech approach
- General feeling of being offended
- I want a safe space!
- This instance if hurting vulnerable people
I personally find each and every one of these arguments invalid. Everybody has the right to live in an echo chamber, but mandating it for everyone else is something that goes a bit too far.
Has humanity really developed into a situation where words and thoughts are more hurtful than sticks and stones?
Edit: Original context https://slrpnk.net/post/554148
Controversial topic, feel free to discuss!
Let’s accepts this as given, it takes us to the question: Why?
I mean early globalisation brought us Donutsz McDonald’s, Coke and an obesity pandemic, fine.
But why and when did this trend start to demand safe spaces everywhere?
There are a few different reasons, and it depends on the safespaces. Some safespaces are financially incentivised.
Really it’s the media people consume. Also doesn’t help that yanks assume everyone they talk to is from their country.