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[–] [email protected] 2 points 29 minutes ago

It's all about control

[–] [email protected] 3 points 44 minutes ago

Some might call it a.. what's that word? Responsibility?

Like that whole neighbor and community upstanding injustice and leveraging their privilege for the have nots thing that has defined modern human society up until Cambridge Analytica?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

Censorship or not, tolerance is a social contract, and those who want to undo this system must be stopped by any means possible. Content moderation is actually the compromise.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 minutes ago

That depends on who's doing the moderation. If it's a government entity, that's censorship, and the only time I'm willing to accept it is if it's somehow actively harmful (i.e. terrorist plots and whatnot). If it's merely disgusting, that's for private entities to work out, and private entities absolutely have the right to moderate content they host however they choose.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Just to put some perspective over here:

Pretty much the exact same thing in pretty much the exact words is being said on the other (right wing) side of things. Its just the things being tolerated are different

I honestly think that the bigger issue here isn't so much tolerance but certain parties that keep pointing out relatively small things to the common people (mostly on the right side of the political spectrum) and go "ooohhg my God can you believe these evil fuckers and they will do that to children too and won't anyone think of the children". Basically I'm talking trump, musk, Fox news, that sort of shit.

I've long held the believe that Trump did untold damage and harm to millions, but the biggest harm he has done is the division he's sown. There has always been a rather steep divide in the US, but that divide has grown into a fucking ocean between the two sides.

I think most people in the US, when receiving the actual proper facts, would really not think and feel that different. Nobody would rage against universal healthcare, why would they? You only do that when you're misinformed.

Not trying to excuse anyone, not trying to say that most trump supporters aren't insufferable assholes, but the vast majority of them wouldn't be as bad had they have access to actual news sources, had they not been constantly lied to.

Now with what you said, please understand that there are loads of highly armed militia groups out there in the US that would love to go into detail of that "any means necessary". Were this to happen, you're basically talking civil war. once that happens, everyone loses, you will too.

I think that the only way to repair this divide is to keep building bridges, keep talking, keep listening, because once it gets too far, then that's it. One only has to look at Yugoslavia as an example of what happens when neighbor starts massacring neighbors. There is no winning for anyone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

The biggest issue is, those who divide us make those people untrusting of said bridges.

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[–] los_chill 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Why is this not as simple as adding a setting button for moderation of hateful content? The user can decide to filter it out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 minutes ago

And who decides whether content is hateful?

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