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And so it beings - the first adopters try to impose their views to keep the community how they wanted it.
The decision has to be between whether you want to be a place for free discourse or not. If you want free discourse then you don't start banning people you don't agree with.
We have a major problem across social media at the moment of people confusing being offended or disagreeing with views with those views being "extremist".
I have no idea what the views of the person in the article are, but the Idea of a supposedly federated platform like blusky banning people is a bit rediculous. It only works while you have one big instance but once federation comes it may get messy.
I personally find the armies of people saying "you're not allowed to say that" are generally worse than the people saying the thing that started it. Doesn't matter whether it's trans issues or CEO murders - I don't need "protecting" from ideas I may not agree with.
We seem to be increasingly falling into a trap of content being filtered and "made safe" for Adults as if we're children.
I'd say we have a major problem with social media in the form of misinformation and radicalisation. The fact that anyone gives a shit about someone else being trans is enough for me to vote to have them blocked.