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Yea... Meta took the same "free peaches" approach and the entire fucking globe is now dealing with various versions of white nationalism. So like, can we actually give censorship of hate a fucking try for once? I'm willing to go down that road.
Never ever fall for that one. You can look at various regimes in the world what happens when "hate" gets censored. Demonitizing is one thing, technical implementations to "live censor hate" would be catastrophic.
I'm looking. Is something supposed to stand out about Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, and the UK?
Actually, yes. In the UK people (including Jewish people) are being arrested and jailed for speaking out against Israeli naziism and genocide as inciting "hate."
That example is literally EXACTLY why people, myself included, believe that the censoring of certain types of speech needs to remain exclusively a private enterprise.
That's an interesting point. On one hand Israel is the way it is because right wing nationalism has been normalized through open and free speech in the US. But Israel is also where it is because of the conflation of the meaning of antisemitism shutting down anyone challenging it. Though, I am seeing that conflation being properly challenged more so now than ever before but it's obviously not fast enough. It's probably time to implement looking more at collective actions more than words within governmental policy writing. As in mass killings = bad. I wish humans didn't suck.
There is real time censorship present anywhere in europe? Nowhere near. We have "you have to act within certain time" laws when content gets flaged, that's all. You could argue forcing DNS resolvers to block certain domains is censorhip though. Look at China. Talk bad about politics in your private chats with your mates, i'm sure your censorship dream will do you and your family well! Heck even talking about Winnie poh is "hate" or was this not true?
Again, demonitize them as you want. But censorship just leads to the groups isolating more and more from the world.
Just look at the beliefs of people witch a member of cults (or religions if you want) - thousands of people which are explicitly denied via rules to gather knowledge in the internet (looking at you Mormons). I'd like to call that psychological censorship - it aims for the same goal in a way but I get way to off topic
Your username is disgusting.
Do you not know who Dick Tracy is?
Yeah I chose it because I wanted to be a dipshit hipster edgelord 😎
I like to accuse people of blocking me because I don’t understand how Lemmy works.
Right? Me too. When replies disappear from my inbox that's when I know: "I am just a weird idiot". In addition to the refrain in my brain: I like to have people imagine sexual bodily fluids oozing from the devil's bunghole with rotting meat and maggots. Due to this, I also confirm that I am definitely cool and popular with all the other Internet hipsters"
I wanted to be a mall cop but after failing both the physical and psychological screening I decided to tell other people how they should use social media.
It’s all about making the world a better place, you know?
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That is a very apt description of social media.
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Meh, it’s kind of derivative to be honest.
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not everyone who doesn't want to censor nazis is a nazi. while i think hate has no place anywhere online, i agree that free speech is important. substack should definetely stop someone hateful from earning money on that platform one way or another.
They can't. That would break the illusion of being an "enlightened centrist."
I.E. votes right wing, sees themselves as slightly more moderate, but sympathizer and defender of the far right and Nazis.
Or one of the many foreign troll farms found to be pushing the "enlightened centrist" narrative.
i'm by no means any kind of centrist or right leaning and i do have very strong opinions about nazis. but free speech on the internet is a very important thing, while i also believe hate speech should be censored.
tl;dr, conflicting opinions != Nazi, dumbass.
It's not the conflicting opinions. It's your lack of commitment to your own professed opinions. You literally stated you believe hate speech should be censored. But all your arguments to this point are that they should not. Where is your consistency?
it's almost like i have two opinions that conflict each other...
That's cold cognitive dissonance. And it is not something to be proud of or a good thing.
Why are you so combative? You responded to a post rebutting a desire to censor speech from a legal perspective. Being opposed to defining any speech as illegal and being a nazi sympathizer are two very different things. You do not, in fact, have to choose one.
i don't think i will, this is complicated and i don't care enough. i am not taking sides.
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Won't work here, on here it is black or white, either hate Nazis and anything that even approaches it or you are one. Every other subject in the world will be grey and nuanced, and they will argue minor points to death, except for this.
If you do not support removing Nazis from the public sphere, you aren't necessarily a Nazi. But you do support Nazis. That didn't make a difference between 1939 and 1945 and it doesn't make a difference now.
I agree if we're talking about literal, actual Nazis waving the flag and everything. The pushback, which I agree with, begins when people start calling everyone a Nazi, or a fascist. It has got ridiculous, I'm embarrassingly leftist and get accused of it.
You might complain when that practice of conflating slightly differing leftist views with fascism backfires and results in people accidentally defending literal Nazis, but you shouldn't have diluted the term in the first place.
These are literal, actual Nazis waving the flag and everything.
From the article:
Yeah, I get that.
I'm just replying to tell you I hear you. We definitely don't want to lose the weight that word carries. I'm glad the term is being accurately used in this case.
Do you have a Meta or Substack stamp on your passport?