• Melpomene@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I’m not confusing anything. The principle of the quote was concerning those who would apply force to prevent speech, not those who chose not to offer assholes a soapbox. But go on.

    Please do point to the text that suggests that opening your living room up to people who want you dead so they can tell you so is a “core principle.”

    Or I can exercise my privilege as a user of this site and ask that @ernest remove the rules-violating magazine from the site.

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      1 year ago

      I find it interesting that, at the heart of our differences, is a disagreement over the nature of the internet itself — whether it’s public or private, more like a town square or more like our own living rooms. If you go back to the '90s, when the Web was nascent, I think technologists would have been surprised to learn that the issue is still so unsettled in 2023. I suppose it’s a tough issue to settle. Ultimately, neither of our traditional notions of “public” and “private” fit it well.

      We agree that people who want us dead should not be invited into our living rooms. My position is that by surfing kbin we are putting ourselves in the middle of a town square, and opening ourselves up to any and all perspectives, disagreeable as they may be. As an American, my sentiment is “bring it on.”

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        The internet is public, go register a domain for hate speech, or “free speech” as some call it.
        Websites are private property and do have moderation.