đī¸ Autumn
@lucian How do I report content? Just saw the N word being used as a username. :/
4y, 18w
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đī¸ Mx
Lol. Here comes the thought police. How can any normal 21st century person be okay with illegal words, animals, plants or people?
4y, 18w
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đ´ī¸ Matthew Townsend
Illegal? A normal 21st Century person doesn't have to be okay with anything. There's certainly nothing wrong with forum moderation by the people hosting them.
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đ Alana
because I'm transgender, and it honestly just fukin wears me down to see slurs thrown around casually. stopped using a forum I liked because one of the users had "tr*nny" in their name. it just sucks, you know? I'll go somewhere else, and then the racists and people who are okay with racists will stay. evaporative cooling, if you will. check out decriminalizenatur... btw.
4y, 18w
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đī¸ Mx
First off, there is no such thing as "transgender". You can mutilate your body all you want and take all the pharmaceuticals you can, you still won't be able to change your gender. You're just going to look weird and condemn yourself to a lifetime of social agony. Secondly, nobody owes you comfort and happiness. If words offend you, then you're already vulnerable to all forms of communication and you should stay away from people in general - both online and offline alike.
4y, 18w
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đ Bort Simpson
This is exactly why censorship is a terrible idea. I'm under no obligation to approve of, celebrate, or accept your interpretation of reality. I would go so far as to argue that your sexual identity has resulted partly from aggressive online censorship that painted any criticism of your identity expression as "hate speech." May I suggest that you reflect on your fragility.
4y, 18w
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đ LÊo
I will play devil's advocate and say that unfortunately some moderation is still needed in today's society. I agree with you: it is archaic to have to police which words people use. I try to see this policing as an act of kindness towards people that for one reason or another may be sensitive to a given word. My wife has Romani ethnicity so the expression "gypped" hurts her a little every time she hears it. "Oh, but she can just ignore it!" Yeah, that's not how brains work.
4y, 18w
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đ¤ David
Like many things, it seems to be a necessary balancing act. Take some of the forums that you or I find to be engaging and thoughtful (eg SSC, Hacker News, etc.)--poor content and drivel still needs to be removed if it breaks simple guidelines. However, we need to allow free thought and discussions if any of us wish to expand our own knowledge and discover new perspectives. Critical thinking requires challenges.
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đ Nlggers
I agree with this sentiment. I am concerned with the direction western tech platforms are taking with regard to censorship. My anecdotal experience has been that in the early 2000s censorship was more prevalent among companies outside of the US (Daily Motion for example) and with the introduction of American companies offering similar services (YouTube) things became more free. Now the opposite has become true with Google introducing programatic censorship via Perspective API
4y, 18w
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đ Bill
With such cheap hosting and no monetary incentive on this site, why would this need to implement censorship? Will "offensive" usernames or slurs prevent others from joining in discussion? There's no upvotes or downvoted to raise this content to the top which would be toxic. It will just get lost in the noise of the crowd
4y, 18w
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đī¸ Mx
You're probably going to be the first account I follow here, not because of your username but because of the quality of your posts. Thanks for sharing the browser privacy list! I'll be checking out the degoogled chromium today.
4y, 18w
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Leeks
So my questions sideways about this discussion are: why did you choose this username? Is it intentionally to be inflammatory? And if so, why is that a priority? Does it stem from a need for attention? I doubt anyone can seriously defend the worth of exercising free speech to use slurs. People who choose usernames like this misuse the free speech argument as a bulwark for 1) needing to cause a stir wherever they appear to feel important or 2) actually being racist or whatever
4y, 18w
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