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Is Blocking Users Problematic to the Platform?
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this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2023
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Do you even hear yourself?
“I’m concerned that there’s gonna be a lot of Nazi stuff on here.” “Step off with your advertiser friendly BS”
Agreed. This has nothing to do with advertisers. It's about creating a community where hate speech is not allowed. Free speech doesn't include nazi, transphobes and the likes.
Why not though? If you put conditions on free speech then where does it stop?
It stops when we run out of Nazis and tankies.
Mipadaitu actually has a point. They shouldn't be blocked if that's just hiding the issue. People should just disagree with them and say so. That way everyone can see there's only two hateful dickheads in the thread and 500 caring people. What's wrong with that approach?
The problem with that approach depends on the issue we’re talking about. To continue picking on the Nazis: allowing them to “just ask questions” for example is a great way to allow them to spread their ideology in a way that thoughtful moderation could prevent.
If someone reads a few posts and comments and suddenly becomes a Nazi, then that person would have already been a psycho. If you read some ideology then is that going to happen to you?
That’s nonsense - bad ideologies take hold in “normal” people all the time! I’m sure we all have that one uncle who was taken in by all the Q-anon talk, or that one friend who ended up joining a cult.