I want instance eventually like CENSORSHIP FREE where people can say anything, like the voat except no limiters placwd on you and you can SAY ANYTHING whenever you want ans
I want instance eventually like CENSORSHIP FREE where people can say anything, like the voat except no limiters placwd on you and you can SAY ANYTHING whenever you want ans
I really hate how free speech arguments boil down to: “it’s gonna be alt-right haven!”. Why can’t we have free speech to call out mods or even government officials for being idiots while still keeping the nazis and conspiracy nuts grounded?
I feel that free speech philosophy suffers from the same issue anarchy does — it could only really work in small strong communities that would oppose bad actors instinctively. So maybe lemmy instance with peer reviewed/closed registration?
Well keeping the Nazis and conspiracy nuts grounded would require there to be a policing of their speech, so it’s not possible to be 100% free speech while keeping them in check. It’s contradictory. Sure you could have SOME free speech while limiting theirs, but then it’s not 100% like what I assume the OP is talking about.
You’ve got a point about it being easier with a smaller group of people, though. There’s no need to limit speech if you already know no one in the group will abuse it.
That’s not necessarily true.
You assume that bad actors can only be dealt with through authoritarianism when liberal-left would argue that it’s possible to have a self-moderating community either through democratic moderation (upvotes/downvotes) or reeducation (e.g. defundthepolice).
Most “free-speech” proponents for discussion platforms such as lemmy are arguing against authoritarian censorship not a democratic one. Free-speech is an issue of authoritarians vs liberals not left vs right, but somehow people always pull out the “bad nazi right” strawman.
That is sadly very common. As it seems, doing the wrong thing for the right reasons makes it a right thing. If you ask me, it doesn’t work out this way. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
It’s really interesting how far auth-left this community is turning out to be.