He seems to be on board by the last panel, lol
I respect the sentiment, but I recently read “Exiting the Vampire Castle” by Mark Fisher and he makes some good points for why callout culture is, shall we say, “less than productive” in some situations.
There’s a lot of irony to this comic being posted on .ml, given the current discussion about censorship issues on this instance
Dude, .world defederated from lemmygrad and Hexbear. They are the ones who have a censorship problem
I support .world defederating from whoever they wish, same as I support .ml running their own instance the way they want to run it.
Have you read through the thread? Tons of examples of admin abuse. I fully expect to cop another ban for this comment thread soon.
Also, I would disagree with calling defederation ‘censorship’. Nobody was prevented from speaking up. Refusal to engage with somebody you disagree with is not censorship.
Preventing people from interacting with whole instances is the ultimate form of censorship. Deleting comments is nothing compared to literally deleting all the users from one instance.
You can always get an account on an instance you can’t see from your main
Yeah, so .world should stop complaining about censorship when they are the #1 censorship instance.
Nothing is stopping anyone from interacting with other instances. Just not here is all.
The ones that are defederated cannot interact with the ones they defederated from.
Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/1357/
Do you want to post it? This one is very good
Alt text there:
I can’t remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you’re saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it’s not literally illegal to express.
I totally agree, it’s like calling your opponent bot, voids a lot of what you have to say
it’s like calling your opponent bot, voids a lot of what you have to say
That’s not quite the same. When calling someone a bot, or nazi, or any other group, you are more explicitly saying " I see zero value in arguing with you and expect that you will only be arguing in bad faith, so I am not going to humor you", and also serves as an at least attempted black mark.
It’s overall just a tactic to end an argument sucinctly, by trying to say “this argument has run its course, I am cutting it off here”
Every group does it. communists call people libs or nazis, leftists call people tankies or nazis or zionists, liberals call people hippies, nazis, commies, anarchists, etc… and conservatives call people by every word in the book.