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[–][deleted] 19 insightful - 3 fun19 insightful - 2 fun20 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Someone sent me an email on Saidit stating that I must have liked censorship until it happened to me. I do not and did not agree with censoring. I thought that quarantining particularly egregious subs was a good middle ground.

Banning subs, and censorship in general, has unintended consequences and that which was in the light, goes underground and may cause more damage when it is not easily seen.

In the same ways that TRAS are now hunting for any perceived transphobia on Saidit and are irritated that they are powerless to stifle GC dialogue here, they may already fall into the category of “be careful what you wish for”.

I think hypocrisy bothers me the most. Reddit left all the violence against women subs up but banned gender critical for its dialogue which TRAS hated. At no time did anyone wish harm to come to TIMS but we sure as shit did not want them to work constantly on the erasure of biological women or to speak for us.

They did and still do, wish death on us, to choke us with their (notgirl) dicks, etc., etc. The things that they say to and about women are horrifying.

We never did anything like that but yet, they remain and we were banned.

What did this really accomplish for Reddit and the TRAS?

[–]Elysian 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It assuaged their deep need for control and their right to a hugbox.

Seriously, that admin who shut all the female-focused subreddits down is probably wanking over it right now.