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PowerfulTurtle@rammy.site 10 months agoDefederation is not censorship. It is refusing to listen to or platform things that you don’t agree with i.e. bigots or nazis. Lemmy.world has defederated exploding heads so it stands to reason that they wouldn’t want to listen to the same assholes spewing the same crap on rammy.site
MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Dude, defederation is a form of censorship, and there’s nothing wrong with censoring false and hateful views.
fkn@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It literally isn’t.
MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Dictionary says censorship is:
Is deplatforming not suppression? Are we not talking about something that we find unacceptable?
It’s censorship, and that’s ok, because it’s the only real tool we have to fight the spread of bigoted lies, because the truth doesn’t work on the stupid and disingenuous.
fkn@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Except it’s literally not the suppression or prohibition of anything.
It’s not censorship if you don’t let people into your house. It’s not censorship if you don’t let people paint on your walls.
This isn’t the government. This isn’t the prevention or suppression or public speech. They can (and do) post that shit. You are free to go read it.
Almost no media platform is required to host or publish any content they don’t want to. What do you not understand about this?