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!

  • HasturOPM
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    1 year ago

    Pardon? Who pulled Godwin here first? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, you didn’t provide any apart from: Cave canem, the Nazis are coming.

    • Erk@cdda.social
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      1 year ago

      Yep, you’re reinforcing what I said pretty well there. My apologies though, I had thought your response was literally the first and now several more have loaded for my very new instance. Unfortunately those have confirmed for me that you have a bad habit of latching onto one or two words of a post and trying to make ‘gotcha’ arguments that ignore the actual point of the post, and I think that’s fundamentally incompatible with trying to moderate a community like this, so I’ll be sticking with my choice to not participate.