Exactly. Will this new platform provide a safe space for the brilliant minds at /r/fatpeoplehate? /s
The problem with all anti-censorship platforms is that they become hate platforms by default, because only people who get deplatformed have an incentive to move there, and it’s mostly hateful loudmouths who get deplatformed.
Personally, I think the solution is just to give users options to censor others from their perspective instead of just trying to create some utopia that is free from hatred of any kind - which is impossible.
Personally, I prefer having these disgusting people out in the open. When they do something horrendous, the paper trail can be long and damning - making it much easier to convict them. These people are usually proud of their deviancy and advertise it without shame.
The notion that if we just ban all the sick people they will just go away and never do anything evil is ludicrous. The evil is already in their hearts, hiding it won't heal it.
I think self managed censoring is equally impossible.
It is twitter’s model, and it puts an incredible burden on the most targeted or vulnerable users.
Or to get back to reddit, the model works for people who stay focused on a very limited set of subs (default filters are horrible); I think that would be close to your idea of personally tailored censoring, but it goes too far in the other direction IMO, unexpected information becomes very hard to reach people.
Hearts and minds are not fixed. People can be recruited and radicalised. For every one person who'd do this stuff on their own there's a hundred who do it because they think it's popular.
> the paper trail can be long and damning - making it much easier to convict them
This usually comes out after they've carried out the mass shooting.
I think self managed censoring is equally impossible.
It is twitter’s model, and it puts an incredible burden on the most targeted or vulnerable users.
Or to get back to reddit, the model works for people who stay focused on a very limited set of subs; I think that would be close to your idea of personally tailored censoring, but it goes too far in the other direction IMO, unexpected information becomes very hard to reach people.
This creates echo chambers like 4chan, 8chan, pleroma.site, gab.com & /r/The_Donald where likeminded people gather and decide bashing in the heads of LGBTQ+ people like myself is perfectly acceptable, and proceed to act out their hate in my community (Ballard, WA).
My fellow trans and gay friends have lived in Seattle without issue for decades, but now Nazis are coming here from rural Washington to attempt to murder us. This is a huge change from the past, and SPD's hate crime statistics are up significantly due to this.
chans are completely open, uncenssored forums - from either side - not even remotely similar to what I'm advocating for.
I have never once seen on The_Donald, even before their quarantine, any highly voted posts or comments advocating violence. The moderators regularly release transparency reports that show exactly all the things that they remove and their have been plenty of instances of people creating alts to post inflammatory things to get them in trouble. The vast majority of users condemn violence of any kind other than lawful self-defense.
I also see plenty of openly LGBT people on there, and they are just as welcome in the forum as anyone else.
"'plonk' is the sound of you hitting my kill file" is what we used to say. It worked pretty well at the time. I've yet to see a moderation system that works better.
