Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign

Post by oldmanjay » Thu, Jun 11, 2015, 8:05 PM UTC

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Every time I see this accusation against 3rd wave feminism, I realize the poster has no idea what 3rd wave feminism is. 2nd wave is the one which frightened insecure men, and had some strong anti porn and anti sex messages from a few proponents. 3rd wave, in short, is why don't we all get along, sex is awesome, and if we help men with some of their problems with toxic masculinity, then everyone is better off. edit: H…

yeah all that needs to happen is men need to be fixed for women to be happy. it works for dating, why wouldn't it work for society?

Post by oldmanjay » Thu, Jun 11, 2015, 8:09 PM UTC

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When you claim that an extreme emphasis on free speech originates from people who secretly wish to silence others, you might be inadvertently revealing something about yourself :-) My idea of free speech is that large privately-owned communication networks shouldn't engage in censorship, just like the government. If you disagree with that, say goodbye to free speech on the internet, because most of it is privately ow…

First they came for /r/ShitNiggersSay, and I did not speak out--Because I was not an asshole. [...] Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak for me. I feel like you're skipping over a lot of slippery slope in the middle there.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 11, 2015, 8:16 PM UTC

freebsdgirl wrote: post #248

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> Most of 4chan left in response. Many alternative chan sites were started, including 8ch.net. A very small fraction of the worst bored on a bad website left to join an even worse website. Don't kid yourself.

I keep hearing this from that group. GamerGate seems to think that they are the majority of users on any given site. They're convinced that Twitter is going to fail if they leave. It's pretty amazing how much they misunderstand the scale of any large social platform.

Post by norea-armozel » Thu, Jun 11, 2015, 8:45 PM UTC

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I'm speculating but it seems like an easy outlet for that "being offensive for its own sake" mindset you see sometimes in kids and young adults. I think it's part of growing up... It just happens that the Internet allows people to focus and concentrate that negative energy.

While that's likely part of it, that's not the entirety of things. To be fair, I would wager that fatpeoplehate had its share of trolls, but I would definitely believe that the vast majority of its denizens were former fat people, and very frustrated at the obesity epidemic in the United States. Frustration leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. You know the rest. I speak here from some experience. Several members of m…

Post by derefr » Thu, Jun 11, 2015, 9:43 PM UTC

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It seems like this is something that should only have to be done once, though. Ideally: imagine that the government of each state/country—who already have to work out how to deduplicate people for purposes of taxation, Social Security, etc.—acts as an OAuth identity provider. Then doing KYC becomes as simple as having a signup process that requires an OAuth login, and having a whitelist of identity providers you'll a…

Great! Now the federal government is involved too :D I'm not sure this is a service I want the feds to provide. All I mean is that your application (e-mail req for a ship) is processed by a human, and there's incentive to keep it that way (because there are objectively not enough 32-bit numbers for everyone to get their own.) If you don't have one, you can still get on the network, you just have a 128-bit identity. I…