They shouldn’t be able to do that!

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    12 days ago

    But if you don’t see what they’re saying, why do you care? How does it affect you?

    What you want is to be able to silence them because you don’t like what they’re saying, ie censorship.

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      12 days ago

      me personally? I don’t particularly care. i rarely use mute/block features.

      but I understand that for some people, its a problem, because harassment doesn’t just end at insults, it can also be spreading rumours and talking shit.

      its not going to be obvious to onlookers that one person has muted another, so if the harasser goes all over the victim’s posts saying terrible lies and rumours, then the victim should be able to know that and take action to stop it, even if the rumours aren’t against the community/instance ToS, and the victim can’t prove to the mods that the rumours are lies.

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          12 days ago

          yes, we all want some censorship.

          defederation is censorship.
          instance bans are censorship.
          community bans are censorship.\

          is your position that none of those should be allowed?
          if so, thats a wild position to take, but you should say it with your full chest at least.
          if thats not your position, why are you drawing the line here? and why are you willing to die on this arbitrary hill?

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            12 days ago

            yes, we all want some censorship.

            Speak for yourself.

            defederation is censorship.

            instance bans are censorship.

            community bans are censorship.\

            And I disagree with them.

            is your position that none of those should be allowed?

            My position is that it should all be up to the user. Let me block instances and communities if I don’t want to see them. Let me choose what content I want to see. I don’t need some mods deciding what is and isn’t acceptable based on their ideologies and beliefs, because as we all know and see every day, most abuse that power almost all the time.

            if so, thats a wild position to take, but you should say it with your full chest at least.

            It’s not wild at all, and I have never tried to hide it. I’ve said it openly many, many times on Lemmy. I think all censorship is bad. Only weak minded people want or need censorship.

            Nice attempted “gotcha” though.

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              4 days ago

              But that’s the right off the mod and the admin to express themselves through blocking and defederation. It sounds like you’re supporting compelled speech

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                3 days ago

                It sounds like you’re supporting compelled speech

                How on earth do you come to that conclusion? Do you even know what “compelled speech” is? What is it?

                I know you don’t know btw, but I will have a good laugh at you trying to explain it.

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                  3 days ago

                  You seem to be against letting people control who says what on their own servers.
                  It’s not a stretch to imagine you want that enshrined in law.
                  Forcing someone to keep content available on their own servers by law is forced speech, because refusing to serve content from their own servers is a form of speech (assuming you’re American, because, yanno) (in this case, the forced speech was deemed legal, but still forced speech).

                  You’re saying you’re not just for the freedom of speech (government cannot silence you) you’re anti-censorship (nobody can silence you), which means nothing without the ability to protect it.