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The whole reason that we’re having such a disagreement on moderation is that moderation has been weaponized for political purposes.

This has happened over and over - Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, YouTube, Wikipedia, even here (try posting a skeptical take on climate news).

I don’t know what the rules should be. But I don’t think that we can have well informed people if a small subset are allowed to filter what ideas people are even allowed to consider.



Or it’s all a proxy for control over the identity of society, and what is and is not allowed - and who is in control for defining it.

It’s an ideological war.

Often these escalate to actual violence.

It’s also a common (real) thread behind domestic violence, IMO.

Incompatible world views coupled with inability to actually integrate them successfully in a workable way.




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