You have got to be trolling, you cannot possible believe that this makes any logical sense..
Most child predators drink water. Do you drink water?
aski3252
joined 2 years ago
Troons are officially diagnosed with a mental illness.
So "mental illness = groomer", that's your logic?
Also Nazis are not conservative. They are socialist faggots.
Right, I'm sure that's true in your little fantasy world..
Sure, and conservatives are mostly racists and Nazis, right?
You generalize people like that you don't need to wonder why people generalize you..
The fact that you equate LGBT people with "groomers" and pedophilia does not give me much hope that this will ever be a place to be taken seriously.
Seems more like a locker room full of 14 year old wannabe edge lords or a call of duty lobby than anything else..
Those are dedicated free speech communities
If the speech is free, why does it seem like 90% of the posts are about LGBT stuff? I'm on this server because I want to know the opinions of right wingers, but it seems like people here are completely obsessed with the LGBT community and "the left".
No, he’s just using his freedom of speech
Yeah, he is using his freedom of speech to express his opinions that "trannyfags should be lined up and shot... No matter the context."
Whether he is telling me specifically to do those things is irrelevant, he is still calling for the execution of draq queens, trans people, homosexuals or maybe all of them at the same time..
Lining up and shooting people cannot be done without violence in case you didn't know..
Where women’s clothing if that is what you love doing so much.
I don't care about wearing women's clothing and I don't care about other people wearing women's clothing or not wearing women's clothing, it is of virtually 0 interest to me..
But if you harm children or their minds, the Lake of Fire awaits you.
Says the person calling for the killing of people simply because they wear the wrong clothes..
Lol I'm not the one who is crying mate. You are the one that's so upset by men wearing women's clothes that you want them to be shot 😂 This server even disabled downvotes because they can't handle them..
So open calls to violence are just tolerated here? And then people act all surprised and start crying when everyone de-federates them..
Maybe this is a language semantic thing. Would it be better if I called it a ‘privately-owned townhall’? The idea is that, yes, there is private ownership but they are inviting the public at large.
A townhall is a public institution owned publicly. A privately owned townhall is an oxymoron as far as I see it.
But for argument's sake, I could somewhat see twitter, facebook or the internet overall as a privately owned public townhall to a certain extend.
And maybe lemmy or the fediverse overall could be considered somewhat of a townhall too.
But individual lemmy servers are not townhalls, they are more like privately owned pubs.
It’s not restricted to family members, people who are in a certain line of work, people who have been screened, etc
Well that depends entirely on which lemmy server we are talking about. I'm sure there are lemmy servers that are restricted to family members or people who are in a certain line of work. And there certainly are lemmy servers that only allow people who have been screened.
I don’t think comparing it to a person’s home is accurate either
Fair enough, maybe comparing it to a privately owned bar or pub would be the better analogy. Bars and pubs are privately owned, but in general, anyone who follows the rules can enter them. But if the bar owner feels like you have violated a rule, they can throw you out or even ban you.
However, due to the nature of private ownership, they are allowed to ban/censor as they see fit.
Right, but on a positive note, the code to lemmy is not privately owned, it is public. So while servers can control their own server like a dictator, they don't have any control over other servers.
that is still censorship, which by definition is restricting free speech.
You can certainly see it like that, yes. But I don't see a huge issue with it as long as this is openly stated in the rules of the server and as long as alternatives are allowed to exist.
Online, technology changes that to an extent. Not saying all the functionally exists currently or that kicking them out isn’t still an option. But lemmy is open-source and it is certainly within the realm of possibility that for text-based comments/posts/etc, a screening process to disallow words you don’t want could be added.
As far as I see it, the technical aspects seem to be a big obstacle at the moment. I think with better mod tools and block tools, some servers will probably reconsider re-federation. At the moment, the de-federation reflex seems to be chosen more due to practical reasons (they don't want/can't deal with the additional moderation).
Just that it is short-sighted and petty to do so if the reasons are political ones.
I personally do see the appeal of a "nice" anti-toxic community, it reminds me of the "good old" internet forum days where your comments were removed for the simplest of reasons, like calling somebody an idiot, or posting in the wrong place, or posting something that has been posted before. Many say people nowadays are too sensitive when it comes to what content is tolerated, which does have some truth to it, but many nowadays are also very sensitive when it comes to moderation where they almost believe that any moderation or censorship is inherently bad.
Now I also enjoy free-speech forums from time to time, but I do see the appeal of a heavily moderated "clean" space if I'm being honest. And I don't see how there cannot be both existing at the same time.
But considering user controls exist, I think it is a bit of a control freak move myself.
I can certainly understand that, although I also can understand that constantly blocking people can get annoying.
IMO a lot of the so-called “racist” and “transphobic” (the correct term would be “transmisic”) feelings that exist online today are not true hate of minorities but strong annoyance with political correctness and language control.
I think a lot of it is people being overwhelmed with how fast things are changing nowadays. 15 years ago, about 50% of the people in the US believed that homosexuality should not be accepted. This has changed very very rapidly, so it's natural that a lot of people have issues with that. I also think that equating "racism" and "transphobia" with "hate" is reductive.
During BLM, people are told that in addition to obvious slurs, they can’t say “blacklist” and “whitelist” (despite those terms having nothing to do with race if you study their origins) or “master” and “slave”
That's just liberals doing liberal things.. They don't want to do actual change, they just want to make PR moves. And I think saying "maybe we shouldn't use terms like master or slave anymore" is not exactly the same thing as saying "you can't use the term master or slave".
There’s also some people that get offended bc you refuse to acknowledge their beliefs (e.g. no injecting hormones and mutilating your body, does NOT make you a woman).
Well yeah, when you are convinced that you are a man born in a woman's body, you don't want to constantly be told that you are not a real man. People can disagree if they want, but I understand that people don't want to have this endless debate that will never ever be resolved because those kind of endless debates inevitably end up becoming toxic.
And you will always end up offending someone.
I think this is where my opinion differs to the opinion of many right wingers. Right wingers always think it's about offending people. To me, it's about creating a non-toxic community. In order to do that, you need moderation. This has always been the case, otherwise you end up in a COD MW2 lobby situation where everyone is just screaming insults and slurs into the mic. And I'm not against that because I'm offended by that, I just don't find it appealing as it hinders constructive conversations.
Your example doesn’t fit bc you are trying to use a private space as an example of a public forum.
But it's not a public forum, at the end of the day it is a private space.. The server is rented by somebody, that somebody is paying for that server and that somebody can choose to do with that server whatever they want.. If somebody choose to host a private lemmy server where only they themselves are allowed, that's their right.
But if you open a place, real or digital, with the express purpose of having freeform or political discussions with large groups of people that you don’t personally know, e.g. a public forum/townhall/etc
But that's not even remotely what lemmy.world is supposed to be.. They choose to allow anyone who follows the rules, but they are very very clear that they are not "a free speech zone." and the rules are very strict, much stricter than twitter, reddit or most other social media sites, so I seriously don't understand how you can make the argument that lemmy.world is supposed to be a "townhall"..
I would argue that suppressing that kind of language
Nobody is suppressing your language.. You are free to say whatever you want on instances that support it.. Nobody is shutting down exploding-heads, but you can't expect somebody else to host content that they don't want to host on their servers, just as they cannot force this sites' admin to host content they don't want...
You have an argument when it comes to centralized social media, such as twitter, reddit, etc. where you are dependent on the company that runs the site. But with lemmy, you have free access to the code and are free to run your own server however you choose.
Ok but does this not prove that your thinking is completely irrational/illogical and entirely guided by emotions?
If 20% of child predators drank frisca and only 1% of normal people drank frisca, my immediate thought would not be "frisca is causing people to become child predators so I need to keep my kids away from them", that would be ridiculous.. It would be "why is there a correlation between frisca drinking and child abusing?"..
If you don't apply simple logic and only rely on irrational emotional reasoning, you might as well argue that all men should be imprisoned because the vast majority of violent crimes is committed by men.
The idea that members of the LGBT community is tied to pedophilia has been around for decades, if not centuries, without any evidence to support it. It used to be gay men that were accused of being pedos and child abusers, now it's trans people.