i am reminded that if “social media” didn’t devolve we’d have organized and come together to solve (crisis upon crisis) already and politicians would’ve had a digital polling station and direct communication with the populace.

instead Facebook Twitter YouTube is what it is.

  • whoever loves Digit@piefed.socialEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    Idk what’s up with your apparent obsession with being banned, but if that’s a problem for you - maybe you should reconsider the way you interact with people on the internet.

    No, you. If you’re using most online platforms without getting banned, you’re not trying hard enough to make the right choices. Or you’re very young or something.

    It’s really not hard to avoid bans in most spaces.

    Sure, a lot of people find it more convenient to go along with the crowd than to do the right thing. Ad populum fallacy is very popular. It seems like you’re trying to allude to some other bullshit though.

    Just follow the rules.

    No thanks. Have reasonable rules, or embarrass yourselves / possibly doom your planet by silencing everyone that stands up to abusive authority figures. You’ll actually pick one of the suggestions in my previous sentence, whereas your suggestions for me are based on an unrealistic view of me as someone spineless, or an unrealistic view of authority as something so inherently reasonable that anyone who makes a rule must deserve to have their rules followed.

    My whole point is that removing abusive and hateful content isnt censorship, its responsible moderation.

    Then your point is incorrect because this is a political discussion space. Open a dictionary and check what “censorship” is. It’s irresponsible moderation.

    Any online community that allows hate speech is not a community I want anything to do with.

    And if we’re lucky, your kind won’t make the planet extinct before being left behind by a more reasonable future majority of humans.

    If you let Nazis in your bar, you have a Nazi bar.

    I don’t have a bar or go to bars. I live in the US where it seems impossible to have a non-Nazi bar by my standards, and your standard here is even tighter, to where I don’t see how any bar anywhere on earth could avoid being Nazi by your standards. So a bar seems like a weird comparison for internet discussion, where the Nazi places are more like the ones that promote echo chambering to help Nazism rise up (which includes banning Nazi ideas from many political spaces)