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If you expect other people to rally behind nazis you're going to need to invest a lot more effort.

Then we took away their easy access to propagandize hate and they stopped coming for us.

"Expressing a viewpoint" is a disingenuous reduction. Viewpoints, and their expression, can cause extensive harm to others, as was the case here.

Just for the record, neither of those statements invoke namecalling and they clearly refer to the person's argument, not the person.

In what way was I uncivil? They composed a strawman argument and attributed it to me, hence they pulled it out of their ass.

There are a number of subreddits for women or people of color that have been very articulate about precisely this problem. They are assaulted on an ongoing basis in a way that most communities full of white men never have to worry about. That is an affront to free speech.

It's not about feelings. People don't tend to swim upstream when searching for community. Why should they? If a platform demonstrates over and over that it lacks both the will and means to protect marginalized communities from personal and private abuse, then its demographics will remain significantly white and male, and they will set the tone for what is normal and permissible rather than the people who are at risk.

Choosing to favor no one is not a choice that's available to us, because it's effectively choosing the most exclusionary voice.

Free speech just for white men isn't free speech at all. When you don't kick out the racist bully, they turn your space into one that is exclusionary toward minorities. Do you shut up some idiots who have nothing but purely harmful things to say, or all people of color?

Non-consensual sexualization (like upskirts, revenge porn, kiddie porn) gets rationalized as free speech by assholes for whom it is personally self-serving to do so.

Free speech is about being able to have and communicate about ideas that may be against the status quo. It's not about harming people. It's a clear boundary that has been held up both judicially and culturally time and time again.

Autonomous public communities on Reddit do not exist because adequate protections against the male white supremacist hive mind do not exist.

White hood wearing motherfuckers chomping at the bit to call black people "chimps" is not merely some alternative "clique", as you disingenuously suggest. The problem with tolerance of the intolerant is that you end up with an authoritarian monoculture where speech is much less free than it could have been.

The presence of grey areas does not invalidate the entire concept of "fuck off, nazis."

Hate speech, bullying, none of that shit needs to be protected speech. It's not as delicate or complicated as people who generally aren't on the receiving end of it try to make it out to be.

These comments make me feel almost like a Luddite. I don't fear technology, but I fear technologists and their apologists.

Calling moderation "censorship" does a disservice to both terms.

What's the difference between seeing and "calculating based on visual data"? If you're looking for live observations of impacts as they happened, this paragraph makes it pretty clear that they're counting "splotches."

It's not unclear at all.

> Speyerer’s team used a computer program to automatically analyse 14,092 of these paired images, looking for changes between the two. The 222 newfound craters are distributed randomly across the lunar surface, and range between 2 and 43 metres in diameter.

I find demagogues like Trump (and his fans) love to blame people who possess sincerity and empathy for their own idiotic demagoguery.

Because someone has a friend.

> ""We also know that the velocity of the water flow must have been more than 300 kilometres an hour."

I'm not sure how to visualize this.

There are demonstrable elements to twitter's decline that can be arguably connected to a lack of diversity in leadership. That's a tangible step above your purely speculative "well a diverse team might've done worse."

This dismissive explanation doesn't account for why stories like this are so attractive to the population of sites like this. It's like people are getting off on superficially demonstrating how emotionally robust they are (I'm not convinced).

> "Safe-spaces", on the other hand, are cudgels of fear, handed to anyone claiming "victimization" to be capriciously used against people with whom they simply disagree and want to shut up.

Oh please. Now who's fear-cudgeling whom? You're being extremely melodramatic in reaction to a questionable anecdote.

You're trying overly hard to rationalize something here.

Doesn't matter. There's an anecdote about a student being a crybaby and that's the biggest threat facing humanity today. Get with the program. We can deal with the Christians once we sort out the safe spacers.

Imagine the commenter is a reactionary, pretending to not be offensive.

This has uncanny resemblance to my own startup. I'm encouraged that Telstar Ettiquettronics were able to raise capital.

The explosion of payment/transfer options in US online banking is basically because there is a vast menu of combined authentication and pricing schemes. So we end up with dozens of awkwardly branded, difficult to use, expensive products, some of which you can only use between accounts at the same bank.

Now that most banks offer mobile deposits, personal checks are the best money transfer product.

Hence the sentence that you omitted:

> There’s an awful power dynamic there that favors the established maintainer over basic human decency.

In any project there will be emotional conflicts. That doesn't mean there should be an overwhelming trend toward coddling incumbents. Not only is it morally suspect, it's really bad for the health of the project.

Don't be too hard on him. As Ben Franklin said, the price of abundant, free porn is eternal vigilance.

It seems like the loudest voices are brand new accounts with some sort of anti-diversity agenda.