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Speech is not violence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_terrorism
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> For example his claim that Singal's writing "endangers trans lives" is hyperbolic and unsupported. Partially due to Singal’s sensationalist journalism, trans people in the United States are about to lose access to some forms of healthcare—treatments that will remain accessible to cis people, like hormone replacement therapy. So I think history has vindicated this particular claim. I don’t expect you to agree, howev…
That's quite the leap of causation
https://commonslibrary.org/the-anti-trans-movement/
Singal is part of the “Disinformation and Conversion” faction, as a promoter of so-called “rapid onset gender dysphoria.”
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I do wish there was a community that encouraged thoughtful positivity over negativity (granted I would not "ban" it) and some level of limited posting ... or something like that. It's a pipe dream I know, but on the surface social media could be really cool.
I think the core Bluesky team has been discussing ways to limit toxicity so I definitely think this is on their radar. Substack also leans into the idea that their platform manages social media toxicity better than other platforms, at least in their marketing copy. I think in 2025+ toxicity is a major dimension to evaluate social platforms on.
Substack is biased towards long form, and long form is inherently antifragile against toxicity. Although bad actors with LLMs could in theory change this.
I probably read more viewpoints I disagree with on Substack than anywhere else.
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"Posting through it" is a fairly nonsensical concept. It implies you're required to agree with people yelling at you, which you aren't. Bluesky in particular has this problem because it inherited a kind of leftist crustpunk poster from 2016 Twitter. They had a weird affect where they hated "nerds" for some reason and pretended to be those jock bully characters from 80s high school movies. The modern Bluesky form has…
Slurs for AI? Maybe take to heart the idea that the Humanities are useful in that you don't end up having thoughts like this if you've studied them.
What is the purpose of calling someone a clanker?
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#276I don't understand how the removing of right wing users is described as a necessary good to create a safe and inclusive space, while the removal of left wing users is decried as censorship. If you dismiss people who have genuine concerns about things as bigoted, you yourself are being bigoted! It is as though people don't understand the definition of the word.
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#277Interesting. Reddit by contrast is moderation decentralized system centralized.
Reddit is forum as a service. discord is chat as a service, fandom is wiki as a service. They all share the common goal of centralizing something that should probably not be centralized.
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> I am going to re-insist on the idea that parental consent is going to play a big role in practice in US healthcare practices, if only for financial reasons. Oh agreed. If, for no other reason, that is how the politics, even on the American Left, are now. A few years ago, people were talking about gender affirming care as a matter of right for the children. Singal, among others, changed that conversation. > I have v…
It should be a matter of right. My parents mutilated me as a child because they denied me healthcare. We should not allow parents to deny their children healthcare which leads to their permanent disfiguration. That's disgusting. If you think it'd be wrong to force a cis kid to be trans, then it's also wrong to force a trans kid to be cis.
I read a study that said a majority of trans kids grow up to be gay if they don't take puberty blockers. I think it's wrong to force a gay kid to be trans.
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#279> However, as time has gone by, Bluesky’s traffic has declined (X’s has as well) and some of its users have become increasingly upset at its moderation decisions, including allowing U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance and anti-trans writer Jesse Singal to remain as users of the platform. So the expectation is that the vice president of the United States should be banned because he says stuff people don't like? What's the…
Twitter banned the president of the United States in 2020.
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Why do you believe that description applies to Singal? His work is well-researched, grounded and reasonable. Perhaps his journalistic output conflicts with your beliefs, but that's no reason to cast false aspersions on him.
> His work is well-researched, grounded and reasonable. Do you intend this to include his almost entirely uncritical coverage of so-called “rapid onset gender dysphoria”? How well do you believe he researched and fact-checked the claims of Lisa Littman? Was he simply misled that her retracted study was real science? > Perhaps his journalistic output conflicts with your beliefs, but that's no reason to cast false aspe…
Why is the idea that children are impressionable so controversial?