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Post by ErikVandeWater »

TulliusCicero wrote: post #56
hn2017 wrote: post #31

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/28/eu-official-warns-musk-hell-... will still have to oblige. Definitely no "hate speech, incitement to terrorism and child sexual abuse." For his part, Musk has said he wouldn’t allow illegal content on the platform.

At least in the US, there's a lot of noxious speech that's legal. The US has very permissive free speech laws overall.

"Very permissive" seems an odd way to put it. It's a human right. The way this is stated is just as if giving women the right to do everything men can do was "very permissive."

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Post by Lonestar1440 »

halfmatthalfcat wrote: post #188
hitpointdrew wrote: post #182

Finally, diversity of ideas, and not diversity of skin color.

You cannot have the former without the latter.

You quite obviously can. For what idea can you not find a person with Black skin who supports it?

You've got Black centre-rightists like me, Far Rightists like Clarence Thomas, Barack Obama in the middle, and quite a range of voices on the Left - I'll pick Ta-Nehisi Coates as a very talented example over there.

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Post by cr4nberry »

mikkergp wrote: post #181
cr4nberry wrote: post #155

With facebook dying, twitter getting bought out, reddit's eutrophication, and tiktok on the rise, it seems like things have unsettled quite a bit The next couple years are going to be very interesting. Facebook will probably get bought out or something. For twitter, I can't really say. Reddit is probably going to become even more repulsive (and hopefully gets replaced). Hopefully tiktok goes away also :/ Also interes…

“Eutrophication is the process by which an entire body of water, or parts of it, becomes progressively enriched with minerals and nutrients, particularly nitrogen and phosphorus. It has also been defined as "nutrient-induced increase in phytoplankton productivity" What is happening to Reddit?

One missing part of the definition is that the increased nutrients cause algae to overgrow and reduce oxygen supply in the water, killing the fish

The process is similar to what's happened to reddit: new users come in like agricultural runoff, which leads to overgrowth of more suffocating aspects of the site culture

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Post by valtism »

hitpointdrew wrote: post #182

Finally, diversity of ideas, and not diversity of skin color.

Why not diversity of skin color?

Diversity is both of these things. It is true that you can have more diversity in a room of people of one race than a room of people of all different races, but it's more common that you will find diversity across lines like race, gender, age, etc.

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Post by hitpointdrew »

encryptluks2 wrote: post #215
cman1444 wrote: post #203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not?

Because a bunch of white men can't mansplain and understand the challenges women and PoC go through.

This is the most ignorant thing I have read in awhile. Adversity is adversity, white males face it, women face it, PoC face it.

What you don't think there are white kids with single moms? Or white kids that had dads that beat them? Or white kids that were molested? Or white kids that got harassed by police? Or white kids that were told to give up, or that they wouldn't amount to anything?

Your view of white people is completely detached from reality. Anyone who has been through adversity (most people), can empathize with anyone else who has gone through adversity even if the circumstances of that adversity weren't exactly the same.

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Post by eastbound »

mjr00 wrote: post #55
addingadimensio wrote: post #20

It would be amazing if a council with diverse viewpoints could even sit together without killing each other in this day and age. Does this exist anywhere?

Yes, this is how social interaction in the real world, or even smaller online communities, has worked for ages. It's only on pseudonymous mega-sites like Twitter, Reddit and HN where jumping down people's throats for having an opposing viewpoint is even a thing.

So it seems people don’t say in public what they really think? Would that explain why we have very different votes during democratic elections compared to what media wants?

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Post by infamouscow »

Latty wrote: post #63
assetlabel wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Diverse in this context means the different people on the council will have very different viewpoints from each other.

Right, so the game becomes making your viewpoint as extreme as possible to shift the window of the council in your favour. What could possibly go wrong. Not all viewpoints are equally valid. Just finding the middle of the viewpoints that exist isn't moderate because you can't just pretend that all sides have equal numbers of extremists and that somehow their views automatically "cancel out".

> Not all viewpoints are equally valid.

What makes you think your viewpoint is valid?

It's intellectually weak and morally dubious to take such a stupid position.

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