> BlueSky’s *highly effective blocking tools*, and even Twitter/X’s community notes feature, which often bridges cross-partisan divides, provide useful examples of possible solutions, if judiciously applied.
So we have blocking versus openly pointing out what's wrong with something. People do like censorship, alright.
You still have the right to speak.
You don't have the right to an audience.
And who gets to decide?
There's no decision to be made. It's a right you don't have.
The decision is where people put their attention. It could be anywhere. Statistically speaking, it won't be you.
Who gets to decide whether I'm allowed to punch babies?
Nobody, you dick. You do not have the right to inflict yourself on another person in any way. That's not how this works.
the people moderating the platform that you signed up to post on?
what do you mean?
See my comment below. On HN for example it isn’t necessarily the moderators, it’s the users with downvote power who can influence what everyone else sees.
So the elite users are the ones who choose. Funny how our communities mirror the social structures we supposedly hate.
The site owners chose to implement it that way. That's their right. If you don't like it you can go elsewhere.
sure but to other users that's a feature and part of why they're here
it's like going to a cafe and complaining that everyone is drinking coffee
“Elite users”? I don’t think that avoiding being an assclown long enough to collect 500 points to downvote status is a high bar to clear.
And? Go somewhere else. I get elite-downvoted semi-regularly but that’s all in the game. You knew the rules when you came here.
I have a right to my own eyes and ears. It's not censorship to block trolls that I don't like.
Right. Ergo it is censorship to downvote trolls you don’t like because you do not have a right to other people’s eyes and ears?
No its the Algorithms of the platforms that decide to treat the signal of the downvote as an indicator they ought to hide/censorship that information for the quality of the information garden whether it be for ad revenue or eudaimonia
I think the way blocking gets used and then bragged about to the personal bubble on BS (I wouldn't know about Twitter) is kind of pathetic, but at the same time, I do not mind getting blocked, or put on any of those shitlists, because that leaves me with the people who are either insane, kinda cool, or both.
You must be straight, white, and/or male sticking to safe topics approved of by mainstream Big Brother sycophants, because everyone else is subject to a firehose of verbal abuse.
He is bragging about being blocked. Most likely he is also part of the fire hose of abuse.
you must be fun at parties
You must not have empathy
Everyone please chill
Why?
I don't party with fascists.
And yet I bet you leave your spam filter on instead of explaining to the spam what's wrong with it.
> BlueSky’s *highly effective blocking tools*, and even Twitter/X’s community notes feature, which often bridges cross-partisan divides, provide useful examples of possible solutions, if judiciously applied.
So we have blocking versus openly pointing out what's wrong with something. People do like censorship, alright.
You still have the right to speak.
You don't have the right to an audience.
And who gets to decide?
There's no decision to be made. It's a right you don't have.
The decision is where people put their attention. It could be anywhere. Statistically speaking, it won't be you.
Who gets to decide whether I'm allowed to punch babies?
Nobody, you dick. You do not have the right to inflict yourself on another person in any way. That's not how this works.
the people moderating the platform that you signed up to post on?
what do you mean?
See my comment below. On HN for example it isn’t necessarily the moderators, it’s the users with downvote power who can influence what everyone else sees.
So the elite users are the ones who choose. Funny how our communities mirror the social structures we supposedly hate.
The site owners chose to implement it that way. That's their right. If you don't like it you can go elsewhere.
sure but to other users that's a feature and part of why they're here
it's like going to a cafe and complaining that everyone is drinking coffee
“Elite users”? I don’t think that avoiding being an assclown long enough to collect 500 points to downvote status is a high bar to clear.
And? Go somewhere else. I get elite-downvoted semi-regularly but that’s all in the game. You knew the rules when you came here.
I have a right to my own eyes and ears. It's not censorship to block trolls that I don't like.
Right. Ergo it is censorship to downvote trolls you don’t like because you do not have a right to other people’s eyes and ears?
No its the Algorithms of the platforms that decide to treat the signal of the downvote as an indicator they ought to hide/censorship that information for the quality of the information garden whether it be for ad revenue or eudaimonia
I think the way blocking gets used and then bragged about to the personal bubble on BS (I wouldn't know about Twitter) is kind of pathetic, but at the same time, I do not mind getting blocked, or put on any of those shitlists, because that leaves me with the people who are either insane, kinda cool, or both.
You must be straight, white, and/or male sticking to safe topics approved of by mainstream Big Brother sycophants, because everyone else is subject to a firehose of verbal abuse.
He is bragging about being blocked. Most likely he is also part of the fire hose of abuse.
you must be fun at parties
You must not have empathy
Everyone please chill
Why?
I don't party with fascists.
And yet I bet you leave your spam filter on instead of explaining to the spam what's wrong with it.