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> go to an instance that has mutual open communication with both other instances How do i find these neutral instances? I tried around some but with unsatisfying results.
You make one? I thought spinning up an instance is designed to be easy.
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You were projecting hard in your last two comments - i generally do not think by constructed group identity. And i'm lost what parts of my wishes you consider authoritarian. I'm just pissed that instance admins install blocks that leave me unable to make my own decisions who i want to interact with - blocking people i like on my behalf. Typical scenario is that someone gives me their fedi ident and i can't follow the…
Couldn't you just spin up your own instance that only consists of yourself in that case? I'm not being facetious I'm genuinely baffled as I thought this kind of custom plug-and-do-yourself-if-you-dont-like-it is fundamental to how fediverse works and is considered a "perk" of it.
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"behaving like a jerk" by your cultural norms and standards. I understand your position and wish you and your instance a future of diverse and fruitful conversations.
Diverse conversations are actually pretty rare in reality when conflicting opinions exist. The paradox of tolerance pretty much demands you weed out the extremists or they will be all that's left.
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Diverse conversations are actually pretty rare in reality when conflicting opinions exist. The paradox of tolerance pretty much demands you weed out the extremists or they will be all that's left.
The "paradox" of tolerance is a weak excuse to enact your own tyranny and nothing more.
Me: "let's hang anybody with account in their username"
You: "why don't you come over to my house, I wouldn't want to seem like a tyrant!"
You see how this might not work out in your favor.
FSE {free speech extremists}, why would one have to be an extremist in country where free speech is enshrined in its Constitutional Law.
Because the US has very unfree speech, despite what someone wrote on a piece of paper in 17-whatever year. In general, the US ranks pretty low on most freedom metrics, except for the freedom to kill with a gun. In general, the more your country has to tell you you're free, the less free you actually are. Many other countries explicitly do not have free speech in their constitution, but something more narrow, like fre…
US ranks 78 of 80 on the Free Speech Index here, not sure what your metrics are that make it supposedly "very unfree". Perhaps you'd like to share with the class?
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Could you elaborate how the U.S. doesn’t have free speech?
It’s illegal to call for boycotting Israel in many US states [1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws
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No one believes themselves to be against free speech.
You do. > I blocked them because one of their users called me the n-word
FBI paying a front group (BoardReader?) to collect open source intelligence isn't too weird, doesn't sound like a crime. And I'm happy the FBI spent resources going after "swatting". I'd really like to know how the front group are controlling Facebook servers to collect data.
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What the heck is this? It's hysterical to report cp immediately? You can be a free speech 'extremist'(clearly a bit tongue-in-cheek) and still want to protect your site from bad actors. Not much free speech to be had when their violations get your site removed. I agree slightly that the 'meat' in the article was lacking as far as what was actually happening with the FBI. Seems no party would give him an inch tho.