The “marketplace for ideas” argument is a great concept until you’re in charge of moderating a server.
If you don’t want to deal with shifty servers, you block them, like you do with shitty people. If you don’t like the way the mods on your server are behaving, you can move to one that’s more aligned with your ideals instead.
I have absolutely no interest in dealing with people who think it’s okay for site moderators to remove any criticism of China because of “orientalism”, or sites that deny massacres and other crimes against humanity and I don’t think that’s a bad take.
The power of the Fediverse is that you can actually set up your own server if you don’t like a particular one and still talk to others unless you give them reason to block you. On your own server you’re free to subscribe to both lemmygrad and beehaw, as long as you don’t break the rules of a particular community and deal with abuse reports appropriately.
I have absolutely no interest in dealing with people who think it’s okay for site moderators to remove any criticism of China because of “orientalism”
I’m actually of two minds on this one
to give them the benefit of the doubt, a lot of “criticism” of China often boils down to sinophobia and a lot of Western internet users do not seem to be able to tell the difference
The “marketplace for ideas” argument is a great concept until you’re in charge of moderating a server.
If you don’t want to deal with shifty servers, you block them, like you do with shitty people. If you don’t like the way the mods on your server are behaving, you can move to one that’s more aligned with your ideals instead.
I have absolutely no interest in dealing with people who think it’s okay for site moderators to remove any criticism of China because of “orientalism”, or sites that deny massacres and other crimes against humanity and I don’t think that’s a bad take.
The power of the Fediverse is that you can actually set up your own server if you don’t like a particular one and still talk to others unless you give them reason to block you. On your own server you’re free to subscribe to both lemmygrad and beehaw, as long as you don’t break the rules of a particular community and deal with abuse reports appropriately.
I’m actually of two minds on this one
to give them the benefit of the doubt, a lot of “criticism” of China often boils down to sinophobia and a lot of Western internet users do not seem to be able to tell the difference
A lot of criticism about China is just racists being racist, which should definitely be called out.
However, posts like this one describe policies that go far beyond that.