My primary argument is that they post hateful content and covid conspiracies and it is irresponsible to platform this by including it in our federation. Secondly we already got rid of lemmygrad. Thirdly, there’s little to be lost in the defederation given the type of stuff being posted over there. Do as thou wilt

Aye and nays pls

Edit: putting the screencaps I posted below here for clarity

I should probably put a content warning so

CW: homophobia, transphobia, and just being a shithead.

Edit 2: let’s try not to downvote people just saying nay. Unless they are making bad faith arguments we should respect their opinions even if we disagree.

Edit 3: Imma be real with y’all, this has been a real shitshow. We gotta work out some kinda single voting infrastructure because the ayes and Nays isn’t efficient at all.

  • DarkwingDuck
    68·
    1 year ago

    Supreme Court disagrees with your claim. Hate speech is in fact free speech.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/06/19/supreme-court-unanimously-reaffirms-there-is-no-hate-speech-exception-to-the-first-amendment/

    Speech that demeans on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, disability, or any other similar ground is hateful; but the proudest boast of our free speech jurisprudence is that we protect the freedom to express “the thought that we hate.”

      • DarkwingDuck
        17·
        1 year ago

        Thank you, I did forget this is a Canadian instance. Unfortunately it’s incompatible with even free-ish speech, much less free speech.

        • Cracks_InTheWalls
          6·
          1 year ago

          I disagree, but I’ll leave it at that. Neither of us is likely to say something the other hasn’t heard and I’m not in the mood to debate free speech and its reasonable limits for a well-functioning society today.

          Given the apparent culture of the instance in question, a higher than average risk of Canadian criminal law being violated exists. Given the repeated request from sh.itjust.works admins that no activities be taken that risk violations of Canadian law on this instance, it stands to reason that the instance in question should be defederated from to limit the exposure to sh.itjust.works.

          I have no opinion about people creating an account elsewhere and participating in defederated instances should this not sit well with them.

          • DarkwingDuck
            23·
            1 year ago

            Thanks for a reasonable approach. You are right about Canadian legalities.

      • DarkwingDuck
        77·
        1 year ago

        I love how you showcase your intolerance by dropping the veneer of civility as soon as you sense any opposition.

        • Derproid
          65·
          1 year ago

          Seriously, dude has a massive hate boner for anyone that doesn’t 100% agree with them.

                • Difficult_Bit_1339M
                  32·
                  1 year ago

                  Edit 2: let’s try not to downvote people just saying nay. Unless they are making bad faith arguments we should respect their opinions even if we disagree.

                  This you?

            • Derproid
              52·
              1 year ago

              Just block exploding heads and move on. Asking all of us to defederate with them or calling us bigots otherwise is you being unreasonable.

            • DarkwingDuck
              42·
              1 year ago

              bigot

              a person who is obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, especially one who is prejudiced against or antagonistic toward a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group.

              That’s you buddy