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The glory of instances. If enough people dont like it, they can just block it!
It's a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, it's easy to block out communities with racist, homophobic, and xenophobic views. On the other hand, it allows communities like that to become echo chambers and freely further their abhorrent ideals completely unchecked.
I don't think the ban hammer is the most effective method of shutting down nazi shit, but it's a hell of a lot better than shutting it out of sight and trying to forget about it.
Problem is that if we don't kick out the Nazis, sooner or later this will become a Nazi bar.
Moderation is different from censorship.
I am not ever opposed to moderation. If you don't want to see something, you shouldn't have to.
I am opposed to most censorship. People who want to discuss their bad ideas with each other and everyone who wants to read them should be allowed to.
Echo chamber will live no matter what. If they cant do it on reddit, they will do it on someplace else. Blocking them is the best we can do, as long as people that I dislike are still alive and have access to internet.
User calls for far-right content to be removed whilst using far-right terminology. The cognitive dissonance must be excruciating.
It's bizarre to see isn't it? Trying to insult people by accusing them or being... you.
But they can't see it. The entire depth of thought seems to be "Nazis are bad and I am good therefore I can't be a Nazi".
It doesn't matter that their list of undesirables is virtually identical, or that their violent solutions are virtually identical, or that the guy standing next to them has a SS tattoo.
They don't want to be a Nazi, so as far as they're concerned, they're not.
The what?
I've never seen the word before, but calling Ukraine's president -- who is Jewish -- a "nazi" was a staple of Putin's propaganda to support his war of imperial re-conquest.
You see, when Russia says they want to cleanse Ukraine of Nazis they actually mean Ashkenazis