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whether it is part of free speech or not the truth is, it will kill any such network. Either due to services boycotting it, or due to the atmosphere being so toxic no one wants to be on it.
ensuring your network has a vast majority of people that do not engage in hate speech but rather constructive or enjoyable discussions is necessary for any network to thrive.
@freemo @awethon @xkore The risk of blocking “hate speech” is that you’ll fall into delusional extremist groupthink, and then you are the ones spouting hate speech. We should discourage hatred if we can, but… it exists. It’s supposed to exist. And that’s reality. What we need is to make it less effective, less convincing, and help people learn to protect themselves from being drawn in by its propaganda. That doesn’t mean blocking the propaganda, it means defusing it, debunking it, and showing that there’s a better way.
I know I won’t have any part in a network where hatred is never allowed, and I don’t think I’m the only one. Even disagreement gets painted as hatred then, and once you block people for disagreeing or criticizing, the first person who suggests something truly toxic, you’ll have to defend them and attack anyone criticizing their words. Trolls love a network where people aren’t allowed to fight them.
@freemo the hate speech doesn't even have to come from a toxic community or real people. this can be an attack any moderated network has over an unmoderated one.
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