The very real and ongoing effort to censor the internet is years in the making and soon to be achieved. The establishment is getting creative in their methods.

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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I agree that internet censorship is a problem and is clearly going on, but I disagree with a lot of the other opinions here. It seems like many of these things are more opinion and sometimes political spin for existing narratives than "the way the world really is factually". Why no mention of the displacement of ethnic brits in the discussion of the brexit? I'm not a brit so I might be out of the loop but was brexit really just about economic issues?

I agree divide and conquer is used and works and we shouldn't fall for it along any spectrum. Infighting is not good. Focus on building and building positive relationships.

When i stumbled upon GC i became aware months later that what i really liked about it was the fact that it wasnt just irrational emotional opinions, it was intelligent people (mainly women obviously) that were looking deeper into the world we lived in. Not in a conspiratorial way either, but more of a "I want to live in a sane world where facts, truth and honesty are a baseline as to what i expect to be surrounded by"

There is a lot of real discussion on GC, but I would personally characterize it as rooted in a dogma rather than rooted in facts, truth, and honesty wherever they lead. And it seems to me the mods were very much participating in some of the general information suppression agendas, and suppress information that is contrary to dogma particular to radical feminism. For example I just cannot believe that humans are the only animal species to have no sexual behavioral dimorphism, that's almost as impossible a claim to me as "JY is a literal female". I do not think it's science-based.

There are censorship resistant technologies being explored, and I hope people will make more use of them, including technologies that do not rely on the internet... which afaik was itself designed for resilience to losing part of the communication network.

[–]Futon_Everlasting 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Who said (and where) humans are the only species with no sexual behavior dimorphism? Cos that's silly: males and females have obviously different reproductive roles to play, which includes behaviors (like breastfeeding). I was a regular reader (occasional commenter - different username than here) for nearly 6 years on r/GC and I would see things like this only very occasionally, and they'd be challenged.

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by behavioral sexual dimorphism I mean some of the things attributed to gender. it seemed like gc pretty consistently had the view that something called "biological essentialism" was bad. That we had to believe people behaved the way they did due to socialization only, that it wasn't innate, and that they could change. I didn't feel like I could bring up and discuss stuff about how this or that gendered behavior may arise from hormonal differences or genetic differences or whatever. Was/is that your impression too?

[–]lestratege 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The absolute refusal of the possibility that some behaviors might be based on biology rather than socialization, and that sex is an innate biological characteristic was actually the dogma on GC.

It just doesn't make sense that humans would be the only mammal species to have their behaviors completely disconnected from their biology.

There can be debate on what is ascribed to socialization, and what is ascribed to biology. And it cannot be only male aggression....