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You can pretend to care about North Korean censorship all you want, but if you name your platform “Pepe,” positively cite 4chan as an influence, and take the time to criticize “cancel culture SJWs” then it’s quite clear what your intentions and motivations are, and who your audience is: you want to create a space run by and for racist pieces of garbage. You don’t actually care about free speech at all, and neither does anyone who is pretending that this platform will provide a public good.

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It seems like you might have sympathies with the cancel-culture SJWs and oppose whatever this gal is behind. Rather than letting your emotions run wild, perhaps asking questions and thinking carefully might make more sense.

For instance, foremost in my thoughts is the question: to what extent do makers of effective open-source tools have any control over how they're used? Popularity for Pepe might mean use by progressives in Iran, racists in America, and regular Chinese who just want to chat without minders. Much more likely it'll be all sorts of folks who use such a tool.

I encourage you to remember that you aren't on the wrong side of cancel culture now, but you could be soon.

This would be the dream goal. But if the system originates from a place of bad faith and bigotry, it will be hard to get anyone but the original bigots to adopt it. Unless someone forks it. Or uses the same algorithms/ideas to build their own version.

> Rather than letting your emotions run wild, perhaps asking questions and thinking carefully might make more sense.

That's incredibly presumptuous of you to the point of being very rude.

Presumably you're ok with "you want to create a space run by and for racist pieces of garbage".

Whataboutism is not suitable for civil discourse.

Although it is very funny coming from someone named NoImmatureAdHom...

"Frustrated with Parler deplatforming" was kind of a giveaway.

Free speech is a public good in itself.

Voltair would not approve of "I might agree with what you're saying but you drew a pepe so you need to be shut down".

yep, not interested

> You don’t actually care about free speech at all, and neither does anyone who is pretending that this platform will provide a public good.

By creating a project whos intention is entirely focused on that mission?

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